rovinare
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ruīnāre (“to ruin”). By surface analysis, rovina + -are. Compare Spanish ruinar, arruinar, French ruiner, Piedmontese ruiné, ruviné.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rovinàre (first-person singular present rovìno, first-person singular past historic rovinài, past participle rovinàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to ruin, to wreck, to spoil, to botch
- Synonym: sciupare
- (intransitive) to collapse, to fall, to hurtle down, to crash down, to tumble [auxiliary essere]
- Synonyms: crollare, precipitare
- la valanga rovinò sul rifugio ― the avalanche tumbled on the mountain retreat
- (rare) of people
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 61–63; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Mentre ch’i’ rovinava in basso loco, ¶ dinanzi a li occhi mi si fu offerto ¶ chi per lungo silenzio parea fioco.
- While I was rushing downward to the lowland, before my eyes presented himself he who looked dim due to long-continued silence.
- (reflexive) See rovinarsi.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of rovinàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- rovinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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