ruine

See also: Ruine, ruiné, and ruïne

English

Noun

ruine (countable and uncountable, plural ruines)

  1. 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 []

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ruine, borrowed from Latin ruīna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɥin/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophones: ruinent, ruines

Noun

ruine f (plural ruines)

  1. ruin, wreck
  2. (finance) ruin

Derived terms

Verb

ruine

  1. inflection of ruiner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Middle English

Noun

ruine

  1. alternative form of ruyne

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruīna.

Noun

ruine oblique singularf (oblique plural ruines, nominative singular ruine, nominative plural ruines)

  1. ruin (remnant of something that has been damaged or destroyed)
  • ruinement
  • ruiner
  • ruineur
  • ruineus

Descendants

  • Middle English: ruyne, ruyen, ruine, ruynne, rewen, ruyn, ruene, ruen, rueyne
    • English: ruin
    • Scots: ruin
  • Middle French: ruyne

Spanish

Verb

ruine

  1. inflection of ruinar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative