Dirumpo, dirumpis, dirúpi, penu. prod. dirûptum, dirúmpere. Plaut.To brast or breake asunder.Dirumpere ludum.Plaut.To trouble or breake vp a play.Plausu alicuius dirumpi. Ci. To burst for griefe of ones ioy.Se dirumpere.Cic.To burst for spite.Dirumpere societatem.Cic.To breake societie.Dirumpere amicitias.Cic.Tabellas.Cic.To breake tables.Dirumpi dolore.Cic.To burst for sorrowe.DirÛparis licet.Cic.Though thou wouldest burste for anger.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dī-rumpo or disr-, rūpi, ruptum, 3, v. a., to break or dash to pieces; to break, burst asunder (rare but class.). I.Lit.: tabulā caput, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 37: ne medius disrumpar miser, id. Curc. 2, 1, 7: cum se in nubem induerint (venti) ejusque tenuissimam quamque partem coeperint dividere atque disrumpere, Cic. Div. 2, 19, 44: imagines, Tac. H. 1, 55: homo diruptus, i. e. that has a rupture (c. c. dirutus), Cic. Phil. 13, 12.—In an obscene sense, Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 11 al.—II.Trop.A.To break off, sunder, sever: amicitias exorsa aliqua offensione dirumpimus, Cic. Lael. 22 fin.; cf.: humani generis societatem, id. Off. 3, 5, 21: regnum, Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 11.—And in a figure borrowed from a play (in which two persons tugged at the ends of a rope until it broke, or one of them fell to the ground): cave dirumpatis, i. e. the rope or thread of your recollection, Plaut. Poen. prol. 117.— Esp. freq., B. Pass. in colloquial lang., to burst with envy, etc.: unum omnia posse dirumpuntur ii qui, etc., Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10; cf.: infinito fratris tui plausu dirumpitur, id. Fam. 12, 2, 2: dirumpor dolore, id. Att. 7, 12, 3; cf. risu, App. M. 3, p. 130, 3.—Once act.: dirupi me paene, I nearly burst myself with earnest speaking, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 4.