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Galician
Etymology
From ruína, or from a Vulgar Latin root *ruīnus, ultimately from Latin ruīna. Compare Portuguese ruim, Spanish ruin, Catalan roí.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ruín m or f (plural ruíns)
- bad
1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes en Romance:As veces ruyn gadela roy boa correa- Sometimes a bad bitch gnaws a good leash
- Synonyms: malo, mao
- mean, miserly, stingy
- Synonyms: cutre, mesquiño
- shoddy, of bad quality
- 1805, anonymous, "Representación dos veciños da Pontedeva", in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 21-23:
non pode querer ó noso Rey que lle paguemos un carto polo neto do viño, que non podemos vender á ochavo. Os probes non comemos mais ca un pouco de pan, ou bróa ruin, e unhas berzas sin adubo. Si nos quita a pinga do viño, ¿que forza emos ter para traballar as terras?- our King can't pretend that we pay a quarter by each pint of wine , when we can't even sell it for half a quarter. We the poor people eat but a little bread, or bad black bread, and some greens without seasoning. If He takes this little wine, what strength we'll have left for working the lands?
- Synonyms: cativo, cutre, mesquiño, perralleiro
References
- “ruin” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “ruin” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ruín” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ruín” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ruín” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.