ruine
See also: Ruine, ruiné, and ruïne
English
Noun
ruine (countable and uncountable, plural ruines)
- Obsolete form of ruin.
- 1678, John Collinges, Several Discourses Concerning the Actual Providence of God:
- Sin in its own nature tendeth to nothing, but the ruine and eternal destruction of a Soul […]
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Anagrams
- Nueir, in ure, inure, urine
French
Etymology
From Old French ruine, borrowed from Latin ruīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɥin/
ruine (file) - Homophones: ruinent, ruines
Noun
ruine f (plural ruines)
- ruin, wreck
- (finance) ruin
Derived terms
- menacer ruine
- tomber en ruine
Verb
ruine
- inflection of ruiner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “ruine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- nuire, réuni, urine, uriné
Middle English
Noun
ruine
- Alternative form of ruyne
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ruīna.
Noun
ruine f (oblique plural ruines, nominative singular ruine, nominative plural ruines)
- ruin (remnant of something that has been damaged or destroyed)
Related terms
- ruinement
- ruiner
- ruineur
- ruineus
Descendants
- → Middle English: ruyne, ruyen, ruine, ruynne, rewen, ruyn, ruene, ruen, rueyne
- English: ruin
- Scots: ruin
- Middle French: ruyne
- French: ruine
Spanish
Verb
ruine
- inflection of ruinar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative