ruin aとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ruˈiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ruˈiː.na]

名詞

ruīna f (genitive ruīnae); first declension

1. (singular) a falling down, collapse, ruin, destruction

   Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, excidium, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, pestis, perditiō, exitium

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.156–157:

     Denique saepe geli multus fragor atque ruina
     grandinis in magnis sonitum dat nubibus alte;

     • Translation by William Ellery Leonard

       And down-pour of swift hail gives forth a sound
       Among the mighty clouds on high; […]

   • 66 BCE, Cicero, Pro Cluentio 35.96:

     vis illa fuit et, ut saepe iam dixi, ruina quaedam atque tempestas et quidvis potius quam iudicium aut disceptatio aut quaestio.

     • Translation by Charles Duke Yonge

       It was all violence, and, as I have said before, a sort of earthquake or tempest,—it was anything rather than a court of justice, or a legal discussion, or a judicial investigation.

2. (plural) ruins, debris
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 15.424–425:

     nunc humilis veteres tantummodo Troia ruinas
     et pro divitiis tumulos ostendit avorum.

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 21.10.10:

     Sagunti ruinae—falsus utinam uates sim—nostris capitibus incident, susceptumque cum Saguntinis bellum habendum cum Romanis est.

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   1. (rare, singular)
      • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 33.4.21 (passim)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

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参照

• “ruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ruina”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus ruina impendet
    
  • the house suddenly fell in ruins: domus subita ruina collapsa est
    
  • a breach: iter ruina patefactum
    
  • a breach: patentia ruinis (vid. XII. 1, note ruina...)