dirupare

Italian

Etymology

From di- + rupe[1], possibly corresponding to a Vulgar Latin *derupāre, from Latin rupes[2][3]. Cf. also Portuguese and Galician derrubar.

Verb

dirupare

  1. (intransitive) To fall headlong

Conjugation

References

  1. dirupare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  2. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), dirupare”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  3. http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/
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