rompre

Inherited from Old Catalan rompre, from Latin rumpō, rumpere (“to break”). Cognate with Occitan rompre, Spanish romper.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈrom.pɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈrom.pɾe]

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rompre (first-person singular present rompo, first-person singular preterite rompí, past participle romput)

1. to break

• corrompre
• ruptura

• trencar

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “rompre”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Middle French rompre, from Old French rompre, from Latin rumpō, rumpere (“to break”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ̃pʁ/

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rompre

1. (transitive, reflexive) to break, to snap

   Synonyms: briser, casser

   rompre un traité ― to break a treaty

   La branche s'est rompue. ― The branch snapped.

   • 1928, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dans la mer du Groenland:

     Le bateau raidissant sa chaîne cassa ses bosses ; le frein du guindeau se rompit ; il fallu mouiller le seconde ancre pour pouvoir le réparer.

     The boat, stiffening its chain, broke its painters; the windlass break broke; the second anchor had to be dropped in order to repair it.

   • 1929, Louis Dumur, Nach Paris:

     Nous y entrâmes par un pont de pierre en dos d’âne, dont une seule arche avait été rompue, et que nos pontonniers, qui avaient déjà jeté les madriers suffisants pour le passage de l’infanterie, s’occupaient activement à consolider […]

     We entered by a humpbacked stone bridge, of which only one arch had been broken, and which our pontooners, who had already thrown enough madriers for the infantry to pass, actively worked to consolidate […]

2. (transitive) to stop, to block, to interrupt

   Synonym: interrompre

   rompre le cours de l’eau ― to stop the course of the water

3. (intransitive) to break up (with someone)

   rompre en douceur ― to break up nicely

   rompre avec une fille ― to break up with a girl

   • 2014, Antoine Bello, Roman américain, éditions Gallimard:

     Je venais de rompre avec ma petite amie (ou, plus exactement, elle venait de rompre avec moi), j’ai eu envie de changer d’air.

     I had just broken up with my girlfriend (or, more exactly, she had just broken up with me), I wanted to get a change of air.

4. (intransitive) to break
   • 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante‎^[1], page 1:

     C'est que, rompant avec l'imitation des siècles précédents, ils retournent à l'éternelle inspiratrice, à la nature . . .

     For, breaking with the imitation of previous centuries, they return to the eternal inspirer—to nature . . .

This verb is conjugated like vendre, except that it adds an extra -t in the third-person singular form of the present indicative: il rompt, not *il romp. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

• corrompre
• roture, rupture

• “rompre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old French rompre.

rompre

1. to break

• French: rompre

From Old French rompre, from Latin rumpō, rumpere (“break”).

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rompre

1. (Jersey) to break
   • 2010, Mêfie-té des Monstres: Tchiques légendes dé Jèrri, Jersey: Le Don Balleine, L'Office du Jèrriais, →ISBN, page 24:

     la mort d'la chorchiéthe avait rompu san chorchéthon.

     the death of the sorceress had broken her spell.

From Latin rumpere. Cognate with French rompre.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁum.pʁe], [ˈrum.pɾe]

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rompre

1. to break

• ronpre
• rumpre

From Latin rumpere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrumpɾə/

rompre

1. to break (damage significantly)

   Synonyms: brisier, quasser

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: rompre
  • French: rompre
• Norman: rompre (Jersey)