ruo

ruo

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Istro-Romanian terms

ruo (Old Dauphinois)

1. alternative form of roua (“wheel”)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “rŏta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 490

ruo

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈru.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.o]

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

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, cū̆nctor, 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

• French: ruer
• Italian: ruere, ruire
• Portuguese: ruir
• Spanish: ruir
• Sardinian: ruere, arrui

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

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

2. to dig out

There has been some confusion between the derivatives of the two verbs.

• rutrum
• rutus
• rutābulum

• “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

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ram, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rəm.

ruo

1. forest
2. land, country

ruo

1. nonstandard spelling of ruó
2. nonstandard spelling of ruò

• 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.

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.

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [rˠuɔ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /rˠiwɛw/
• Bender phonemes: {riwew}

ruo

1. two

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

ruo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ruar