ruta
Asturian
Catalan
Further reading
- “ruta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Irish
Etymology
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Declension
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ruta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian
Etymology
From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈru.ta/
- Rhymes: -uta
- Hyphenation: rù‧ta
Derived terms
Kabuverdianu
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
Karelian
Noun
ruta (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Synonyms
- (pearl): simčukka
References
- Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ruta”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kurutta as an equivalent of English take off in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾuta/
Verb
ruta (infinitive kũruta)
Synonyms
- (to teach): kuonia
Derived terms
(Verbs)
- kũrutana
- kũrutĩra
(Nouns)
- mũrutani class 1
(Idioms)
(Proverbs)
- mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ iniũrũ
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 58–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 24.
- Wanjohi, G. J. (1997). The Wisdom and Philosophy of the Gikuyu Proverbs: The Kihooto World-view, p. 244. Paulines Publications Africa.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “ruta” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. 413–414. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Njũrũri, Ngũmbũ (1969). Gĩkũyũ Proverbs, p. 104.
Laboya
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈruːta]
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ), from a Peloponnesian language.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈruː.ta/, [ˈruːt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.ta/, [ˈruːt̪ä]
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rūta | rūtae |
Genitive | rūtae | rūtārum |
Dative | rūtae | rūtīs |
Accusative | rūtam | rūtās |
Ablative | rūtā | rūtīs |
Vocative | rūta | rūtae |
Participle
ruta
- inflection of rutus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Descendants
References
- “ruta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ruta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ruta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ruta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈru.ta/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uta
- Syllabification: ru‧ta
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French route, from Latin (via) rupta. Doublet of raut (“rout”).
Etymology 3
Borrowed from German Rute, Ruthe, from Middle High German ruote, from Old High German ruota, from Proto-West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *rōdō.
Noun
ruta f
- flexible rod used for corporal punishment
- Hypernym: pręt
- (historical) rod (unit of measure)
- Synonym: pręt
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈru.ta]
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French route, from the Latin phrase via rupta (“a paved, cleared or 'broken' road”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈruta/ [ˈru.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -uta
- Syllabification: ru‧ta
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ruta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish

Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -²ʉːta
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German rūte, from Old High German rūta, probably from Latin rūta (“rue”). Cognates include Danish rude, Norwegian Bokmål rute and German Raute (“rhomb”).
Noun
ruta c
- square, tile, box (as on a checkerboard)
- windowpane (a piece of glass)
- Synonym: fönsterruta
- panel (single frame in a comic strip)
- lozenge (diamond-shaped heraldic charge)
- (games) foursquare
Declension
Declension of ruta | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ruta | rutan | rutor | rutorna |
Genitive | rutas | rutans | rutors | rutornas |
Related terms
- (square): rutig, rutad
Descendants
- → Finnish: ruutu
Etymology 2
From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
Declension
Declension of ruta | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ruta | rutan | rutor | rutorna |
Genitive | rutas | rutans | rutors | rutornas |
Anagrams
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɾuta/, [ˈɾu.tɐ]
- Rhymes: -uta
- Hyphenation: ru‧ta
Noun
ruta (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆ)
Derived terms
- iruta
- magruta
- rumuta
Further reading
- “ruta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018