ruina

ruina

1. feminine singular of ruin

Borrowed from German Ruine.

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ruina f

1. ruin

• “ruina”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ruina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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ruina

1. third-person singular past historic of ruiner

• nuira
• unira
• urina

• IPA^(key): /ruˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: ru‧ì‧na

ruina f (plural ruine)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of rovina

• rauni, unirà, urani, urina

From ruō (“I collapse”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ruˈiː.na/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ruˈi.na/,

ruīna f (genitive ruīnae); first declension

1. a falling down, collapse, ruin, destruction

   Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, excidium, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, pestis, perditiō, exitium

2. ruins, debris

First-declension noun.

• corruō
• ruō
• ruīnō

• “ruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ruina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus ruina impendet
    
  • the house suddenly fell in ruins: domus subita ruina collapsa est
    
  • a breach: iter ruina patefactum
    
  • a breach: patentia ruinis (vid. XII. 1, note ruina...)
    

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Learned borrowing from Latin ruīna.

• IPA^(key): /ruˈi.na/

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ru‧i‧na

ruina f

1. ruin (remains of destroyed construction)
2. (colloquial) broken man, mess, train wreck (someone who is unbalanced and considered a mess; a disaster; one who is suffering personal ruin)

   Synonym: wrak

• ruina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ruina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French ruiner, from Latin ruinare.

• IPA^(key): /ru.iˈna/

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a ruina (third-person singular present ruinează, past participle ruinat) 1st conjugation

1. to ruin

• ruinare
• ruinat

• ruină

• ruina in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• IPA^(key): /ˈrwina/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: rui‧na

Inherited from Latin ruina.

ruina f (plural ruinas)

1. ruin, decay, wreck (also figurative)
2. decline, downfall
3. (in the plural) ruins

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ruina

1. inflection of ruinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ruina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10