Translation
to ruin, to wreck
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from ruino ('a ruin') plus the causative suffix -ig-, so it means literally to make into a ruin. Ruino itself is from Latin ruina, from ruere, 'to fall, to collapse'.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation, from Latin ruina
- Root
- ruino + -ig-
- English cognates
- ruin, ruinous
Examples
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The war ruined the whole town.
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One mistake can ruin everything.
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The rain ruined our garden.
This is an affix word, not a root: ruin plus -- plus the verb ending. Learn the pattern and you get the whole family free. with -- is the intransitive twin, to fall into ruin of its own accord, and is the wrecked building itself. Nothing here needs memorising separately once -- and -- are solid.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 30.