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

• Nueir, in ure, inure, urine

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ruine, borrowed from Latin ruīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɥin/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: ruinent, ruines

Noun

ruine f (plural ruines)

1. ruin, wreck
2. (finance) ruin

Derived terms

• menacer ruine
• tomber en ruine

Verb

ruine

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

1. Alternative form of ruyne

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruīna.

Noun

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

1. 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

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