ruine
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
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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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French ruine, borrowed from Latin ruīna.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ruine f (plural ruines)
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
ruine
- inflection of ruiner:
Further reading[edit]
- “ruine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
ruine
- Alternative form of ruyne
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
ruine oblique singular, f (oblique plural ruines, nominative singular ruine, nominative plural ruines)
- ruin (remnant of something that has been damaged or destroyed)
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Descendants[edit]
- → Middle English: ruyne, ruyen, ruine, ruynne, rewen, ruyn, ruene, ruen, rueyne
- Middle French: ruyne
- French: ruine
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
ruine
- inflection of ruinar:
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