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Translingual
Symbol
ruo
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Istro-Romanian.
See also
Franco-Provençal
Noun
ruo (Old Dauphinois)
- Alternative form of roua (“wheel”)
References
Galician
Verb
ruo
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of ruar
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *rowō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rew- . Cognate with Ancient Greek ὀρούω (oroúō, “hurry”).
Verb
ruō (present infinitive ruere, perfect active ruī, supine rutum); third conjugation
- to hurry, rush, hasten, move quickly
- Synonyms: currō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, prōripiō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō, prōsiliō
- Antonyms: retardō, cūnctor, moror, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō
- to collapse, fall down, fall in ruins, topple
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.290:
- “‘Hostis habet mūrōs; ruit altō ā culmine Troia.’”
- “‘The enemy holds walls; Troy is toppling down from lofty height.’”
- to fail, fall
- Synonyms: corruō, cadō, incidō, incurrō, occidō, accidō
- to cast down; to hurl to the ground, prostrate
- Synonyms: prōsternō, sternō, fundō, prōflīgō
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Italic *rowō, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to tear out, dig out”).
Verb
ruō (present infinitive ruere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- to dig out
Usage notes
There has been some confusion between the derivatives of the two verbs.
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “ruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be ruined, undone: ad interitum ruere
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 326
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 530-1
Mandarin
Romanization
ruo
- Nonstandard spelling of ruó.
- Nonstandard spelling of ruò.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Marshallese
Etymology
From Proto-Micronesian *rua, from Proto-Oceanic *rua, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dua, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.
Pronunciation
Numeral
ruo
- two
References
Portuguese
Verb
ruo
- first-person singular present indicative of ruar