- rupture (n.)
- early 15c., originally medical, from Latin ruptura "the breaking (of an arm or leg), fracture," from past participle stem of rumpere "to break," cognate with Old English reafian "to seize, rob, plunder," reofan "to tear, break;" Old Norse rjufa "to break" (see reft).
- rupture (v.)
- 1739, from rupture (n.). Related: Ruptured; rupturing.