rúa

See also: rua, ruá, rùa, rũa, rủa, rữa, and rửa

Galician

Street sign in Galicia

Rúa do Franco (left) and Rúa do Vilar (right), Santiago de Compostela

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin rūga (“wrinkle”), probably through Old French rue, or influenced by it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈru.ɐ]

Noun

rúa f (plural rúas)

1. street
2. path in a garden

Derived terms

• A Rúa de Valdeorras
• Rúa
• Rúa Nova
• Rúa Travesa
• ruada (“night street feast”)
• ruavella
• rueiro (“a group of houses”)
• Ruela

Related terms

• enruga

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rúa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rúa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

rúa

1. inflection of ruar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin rūga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrua/ [ˈru.a]
• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: rú‧a

Noun

rúa f (plural rúas)

1. street

Further reading

• “rúa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10