Eructate
/ɪˈrʌk.teɪt/noun
To belch or vomit gas from the stomach.
Did you know?Eructate comes from Latin eructare, built from e- (“out”) + ructare (“to belch”), and its root is shared with words tied to throat-and-breath action, not magic—just very bodily ancient language.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*reug-
“to belch, emit a burst of breath or gas”
Latin
Latin
ructāre
“to belch repeatedly”
Latin
Latin
ēructāre
“to belch out, throw out with force”
Late Latin
Latin
ēructātus
“belched out; vomited forth”
14th–15th Century
English
eructaten
“to belch; to emit gas from the stomach”
Modern English
English
eructate
“to belch or expel gas from the stomach”