Word part · Latin root
The Latin root rupt
Means: break.
At a glance
- Part
- rupt
- Meaning
- break
- Layer
- Latin: Prefixes, suffixes and roots behind many school and book words.
Something always breaks, bursts or is cut off: a volcano erupts, a speaker is interrupted.
Example words
Read each word, then its sum: the parts that build it, and what they mean together.
Colors:prefixroot or basesuffix
- e (prefix)+rupt (root or base)→erupt
break out, like lava from a volcano
e + rupt: the prefix changes to match → erupt
- e (prefix)+rupt (root or base)+ion (suffix)→eruption
a breaking out, as of a volcano
e + rupt + ion: the prefix changes to match → eruption
- inter (prefix)+rupt (root or base)→interrupt
break in between, as when someone else is talking
- dis (prefix)+rupt (root or base)→disrupt
break apart the order of something
- dis (prefix)+rupt (root or base)+ive (suffix)→disruptive
tending to break up order
- inter (prefix)+rupt (root or base)+ion (suffix)→interruption
a break in the middle of something
- dis (prefix)+rupt (root or base)+ion (suffix)→disruption
a break in the usual order
Original word lists and meanings written by Literacy Trail.
Taught alongside
Parts that share a lesson with rupt.
- portcarry
- in-in, or into
- -era person or thing that does something
- re-again, or back
- dis-not, the opposite of, or apart
- -ablecan be, or able to be
- -ivetending to, or having the quality of
- -tionthe act of, or the result of
- sub-under, or below
- inter-between, or among
- ex-out
- trans-across, or from one place to another
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