English → Latin
“ruinous” in Latin
ruīnōsusruined, tumbledown; ruinousvitiōsusfull of faults or defects; faulty, defective, bad, corrupt; morally faulty, wicked, depraved, viciousdīlāborto melt away, dissolve; to fall apart, disintegrate, break up; to decay, collapse, perishperniciōsusdestructive, ruinous, baleful, perniciousexitiōsusdestructive, pernicious, deadlyexitiālisdestructive; fatal, deadlyexitiābilisdestructive; deadly, fataldamnōsuscausing damage, injurious, destructive; prodigalfūnestusdeadly, fatal; mournful, dismalpestilēnspestilential, infected, unhealthy; noxious, destructive, pestilent
The English word ruinous itself goes back to Latin ruīna, through ruīnōsus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ruinous
Dilapidated, ruinosus; pronus in ruinam (ready to fall): vitiosus (injured, damaged): dilabens (falling to pieces). To be in a ruinous condition, ruinosum esse, ruinam minari (to be on the point of falling): labare (to totter). The house is in a ruinous condition, aedes vitium fecerunt.
Destructive, pernicious, perniciosus: exitiosus: exitialis: exitiabilis: damnosus: funestus: pestilens: pestifer. SYN. in HURTFUL.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ruinous?
- The usual Latin words for “ruinous” are ruīnōsus, vitiōsus, dīlābor; also perniciōsus, exitiōsus, exitiālis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.