# ruina
## Asturian
### Adjective

ruina
* feminine singular of ruin

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Ruine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈruɪna]

### Noun

ruina f
* ruin

#### Related terms

* ruinovat
* zruinovat

### Further reading

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

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

ruina
* third-person singular past historic of ruiner

### Anagrams

* nuira
* unira
* urina

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ruˈi.na/
* Rhymes: -ina
* Hyphenation: ru‧ì‧na

### Noun

ruina f (plural ruine)
* (archaic) Alternative form of rovina

### Anagrams

* rauni, unirà, urani, urina

## Latin
### Etymology

From ruō (“I collapse”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

ruīna f (genitive ruīnae); first declension
* a falling down, collapse, ruin, destruction
    Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, excidium, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, pestis, perditiō, exitium
* ruins, debris

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* corruō
* ruō
* ruīnō

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: rrënoj
* → Asturian: ruina
* → Belarusian: руі́на (ruína)
* Catalan: ruïna
* Friulian: ruvine
* → Galician: ruína
* Galician: ruín
* → German: Ruine
* Italian: ruina, rovina
* Occitan: roïna
* → Old French: ruine
** → Middle English: ruyne, ruyen, ruine, ruynne, rewen, ruyn, ruene, ruen, rueyne
*** English: ruin
*** Scots: ruin
** Middle French: ruyne
*** French: ruine
* Piedmontese: ruin-a
* → Portuguese: ruína
* Portuguese: ruim
* → Polish: ruina
* → Romanian: ruină
* Romansch: ruina, ruegna, ruigna
* → Russian: руина (ruina) (learned)
* Sardinian: arruinu, orroghina, roghina
* Sicilian: ruina
* → Spanish: ruina
* → Ukrainian: руї́на (rujína) (learned)
* Venetan: 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, 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...)

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ruīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ruˈi.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ina
* Syllabification: ru‧i‧na

### Noun

ruina f
* ruin (remains of destroyed construction)
* (colloquial) broken man, mess, train wreck (someone who is unbalanced and considered a mess; a disaster; one who is suffering personal ruin)
    Synonym: wrak

#### Derived terms

* ruiny
* rujnować
* zrujnować

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ruiner, from Latin ruinare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ru.iˈna/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

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

#### Derived terms

* ruinare
* ruinat

#### Related terms

* ruină

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrwina/ [ˈrwi.na]
* Rhymes: -ina
* Syllabification: rui‧na

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ruina.

#### Noun

ruina f (plural ruinas)
* ruin, decay, wreck (also figurative)
* decline, downfall
* (in the plural) ruins

##### Derived terms

* arruinar

##### Related terms

* ruinoso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

ruina
* inflection of ruinar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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