ruine
Old French
noun
Definitions
- ruin remnant of something that has been damaged or destroyed
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ruīna (debris, ruins, ruin, overthrow).
Origin
Latin
ruīna
Gloss
debris, ruins, ruin, overthrow
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ruin English
- ruinare Latin
- ruinosus Latin
- ruīna Latin
- Ruine German
- rovina Italian
- ruine French
- ruineux French
- ruin Spanish, Castilian
- ruim Portuguese
- ruina Polish
- ruyne Middle English
- ruynous Middle English
- roí Catalan, Valencian
- ruïna Catalan, Valencian
- ruín Galician
- ruína Galician
- ruină Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ruyna Old Portuguese
- ruvine Friulian
- rwinn Mauritian Creole