Interrumpo, interrumpis, interrúpi, pe. prod. interrúptum, interrumpere. Plau. To breake in the middes: to interrup or let one speaking.Pontem ferro, igni, quacunque vi possÊt, interrumpant, Liu.Ordinem interrumpere. Colum. To confonnde the order of things.Somnos interrumpere. Plin. To interrupt and breake sleepe.Singultus interrumpens pias querelas.Ouid.Sobbing that interrnpteth one pitifully complaining.Colloquia interrumpere. Cæsar. To interrupte men talking.Quorum mediam orationem interrumpunt vndique subilò tela immissa. Cæsar. Interrumpere iter amoris.Cic.To let or stay the continuãce of ones good wil.Interruptus. Participium. Broken in the middes: disturbed: interrupted: letted: discontinued:Liui. Ne interrupta Romanis acies videatur: Leaste the aray of the armic might seem be broken.Amnis interruptus aquis Lucan.The course of a streame letted or stayed with any thing.Longis interuallis temporum interrupta onsuetudo. Cicer.Familiatitie of long time discontinued.Ignes interrupti.Virg.Itinera interrupta & imperuia.Tacit.Waies stopped so that one cannot passe.Pendent opera interrupta.Virg.Worke discontinued or broken of remaine vnperfect.Interruptæ atque morientes voces.Cic. Interruptum & continuatum, contraria. Ci. Discontinued.Interrupta contexere. Cice. To ioyne together things broke off.Interruptis vocibus vti.Cic.To speake sobbingly.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
inter-rumpo, rūpi, ruptum, 3 (in tmesi: inter quasi rumpere, Lucr. 5, 287: inter quasi rupta, id. 5, 299), v. a., to break apart or asunder, break to pieces, break up (class., esp. in part. pass.). I.Lit.: contingere idem terrae necesse est, ut nihil interrumpat, quo labefactari possit, Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116: interrupta et impervia itinera, Tac. A. 3, 31: acies, Liv. 40, 40: ignes,
scattered about
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here and there
, Verg. A. 9, 239.—Of bridges, etc.: pontem fluminis,
to destroy
, Caes. B. C. 1, 16; 1, 48; id. B. G. 7, 34; Plaut. Cas. prol. 66; cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 3; Liv. 2, 10; Just. 2, 13, 5.—Of the ranks of an army, esp. the enemy's line: interrupta acies, Liv. 40, 40: extremum agmen, Caes. B. C. 1, 64: aciem hostium, Liv. 44, 41. — II.Trop., to break off, interrupt: orationem, Caes. B. C. 3, 19: iter amoris et officii, Cic. Att. 4, 2: ordinem, Col. 11, 2, 25: sermonem, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 25: contextum, Quint. 11, 3, 39: querelas, Ov. M. 11, 420: possessionem, Dig. 41, 3, 5: somnos, Plin. 28, 4, 14, 55: ni medici adventus nos interrupisset, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 1: somnum, Suet. Aug. 78.—Hence, interruptus, a, um, P. a., interrupted: officium, Cic. Fam. 5, 8: consuetudo, id. ib. 15, 14: voces, id. Cael. 24: dictio silentio, Quint. 9, 2, 71: sermo, Tac. H. 2, 41. — Adv.: interruptē, interruptedly: narrare, Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 329.