Translation
ruin, wreckage; downfall
Word origin
From Latin ruina, a collapse, from ruere 'to rush down, to fall'. The Latin noun already carried both meanings Esperanto keeps: the physical falling-in of a building and the financial or personal downfall of a person.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ruina
- English cognates
- ruin, ruinous
Examples
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We walked among the ruins of an ancient castle.
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The war left the town in ruins.
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After the storm the house was nothing but a wreck.
Two senses that English also runs together. Physically, in the plural are what is left standing: Romo. Figuratively, in the singular is somebody's collapse - ludo .
The verb is ruinigi, to wreck something, with for the thing falling apart of its own accord. That pair is worth the ten seconds: see -igi and -iĝi.
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