See also: ruó, ruò, and ru'o

Translingual

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ruo

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Istro-Romanian.

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Franco-Provençal

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Noun

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ruo (Old Dauphinois)

  1. Alternative form of roua (wheel)

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Galician

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Verb

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ruo

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of ruar

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Italic *rowō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rew- (to run, hurry). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὀρούω (oroúō, hurry).[1]

Verb

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ruō (present infinitive ruere, perfect active ruī, supine rutum); third conjugation

  1. to hurry, rush, hasten, move quickly
    Synonyms: currō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, prōripiō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō, prōsiliō
    Antonyms: retardō, cūnctor, moror, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō
  2. to collapse, fall down, fall in ruins, topple
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.290:
      “‘Hostis habet mūrōs; ruit altō ā culmine Troia.’”
      [Aeneas recalls Hector’s dire warning:] “‘The enemy holds [our] walls; Troy is toppling down from [her] lofty height.’”
  3. to fail, fall
    Synonyms: corruō, cadō, incidō, incurrō, occidō, accidō
  4. to cast down; to hurl to the ground, prostrate
    Synonyms: prōsternō, sternō, fundō, prōflīgō
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Descendants
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  • French: ruer
  • Italian: ruere, ruire
  • Portuguese: ruir
  • Spanish: ruir
  • Sardinian: ruere, arrui

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Italic *rowō, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (to tear out, dig out).[2]

Verb

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ruō (present infinitive ruere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

  1. to dig out
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There has been some confusion between the derivatives of the two verbs.

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ruō, -ere 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 530
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ruō, -ere 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 530-1

Further reading

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  • ruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be ruined, undone: ad interitum ruere
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 326

Mandarin

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Romanization

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ruo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of ruó.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of ruò.

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Marshallese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Micronesian *rua, from Proto-Oceanic *rua, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dua, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

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Numeral

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ruo

  1. two

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Portuguese

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Verb

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ruo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ruar