"ruin" in seven languages
Meaningruin
Spanish
ruina
/ˈrwina/
fem.learned
French
ruine
/ʁɥin/
fem.learned
Italian
rovina
/roˈvina/
fem.inherited
For the remains of an old building Italian also says ruderi.
Portuguese
ruína
/huˈinɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
ruină
/ruˈinə/
fem.learned
Catalan
ruïna
/ruˈinə/
fem.learned
English
ruin
/ˈɹuɪn/
from Latin/French · Old French ruine, Latin RUĪNAM
English → ItalianruinrovinaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
RUĪNAM‘a collapse, a fall (RUERE 'to rush down')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Italian kept the spoken word, slipping a v between the vowels (rovina); Spanish and French took ruina straight from books.
English relatives: ruinous
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In a sentence
- esEl castillo está en ruinas.
- frLe château est en ruine.
- itIl castello è in rovina.
- ptO castelo está em ruínas.
- roCastelul e în ruine.
- caEl castell està en ruïnes.
- enThe castle is in ruins.
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