ruina

See also: ruína, ruïna, ruiná, and ruină

Czech

Noun

ruina f

1. ruin

Related terms

• ruinovat
• zruinovat

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French

Verb

ruina

1. third-person singular past historic of ruiner

Anagrams

• nuira
• unira
• urina

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruˈina/, [r̺uˈiː.n̺a]
• Hyphenation: ru‧i‧na

Noun

ruina f (plural ruine)

1. Archaic form of rovina.

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Latin

Etymology

From ruō (“I collapse”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ruīna f (genitive ruīnae); first declension

1. a falling down, collapse, ruin, destruction
2. ruins, debris

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ruīna	ruīnae
Genitive	ruīnae	ruīnārum
Dative	ruīnae	ruīnīs
Accusative	ruīnam	ruīnās
Ablative	ruīnā	ruīnīs
Vocative	ruīna	ruīnae

Related terms

• corruō
• ruō
• ruīnō

Descendants

• Albanian: rrënoj
• Asturian: ruina
• Catalan: ruïna
• English: ruin
• French: ruine
• Friulian: ruvine

• Galician: ruína, ruín
• German: Ruine
• Italian: rovina
• Occitan: roïna
• Portuguese: ruína, ruim
• Polish: ruina
• Romanian: ruină

• Romansch: ruina, ruegna, ruigna
• Russian: руина (ruina)
• Sardinian: arruinu, orroghina, roghina
• Sicilian: ruvina
• Spanish: ruina
• Venetian: roina, rovina, ruina

References

• “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^[1], 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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Polish

ruiny

Noun

1. ruin

Related terms

• ruiny
• rujnować
• zrujnować

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruinare, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French ruiner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru.iˈna/

Verb

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

1. to ruin

Conjugation

    conjugation of ruina (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a ruina
gerund			ruinând
past participle			ruinat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	ruinez	ruinezi	ruinează	ruinăm	ruinați	ruinează
	imperfect	ruinam	ruinai	ruina	ruinam	ruinați	ruinau
	simple perfect	ruinai	ruinași	ruină	ruinarăm	ruinarăți	ruinară
	pluperfect	ruinasem	ruinaseși	ruinase	ruinaserăm	ruinaserăți	ruinaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să ruinez	să ruinezi	să ruineze	să ruinăm	să ruinați	să ruineze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		ruinează			ruinați
	negative		nu ruina			nu ruinați

Derived terms

• ruinare
• ruinat

Related terms

• ruină

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrwina/ [ˈrwi.na]

Etymology 1

From Latin ruina.

Noun

ruina f (plural ruinas)

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

Related terms

• arruinar
• ruinoso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ruina

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ruinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ruinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ruinar.

Further reading

• “ruina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014