ruta

See also: Ruta, rúta, rūta, Rūta, and rută

Asturian

Verb

ruta

1. third-person singular present indicative of rutar
2. second-person singular imperative of rutar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French route.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈru.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈru.ta]

Noun

ruta f (plural rutes)

1. route

Further reading

• “ruta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ruta m (genitive singular ruta, nominative plural rutaí)

1. rut, beaten track
2. place, district

Declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ruta rutaí Vocative a ruta a rutaí Genitive ruta rutaí Dative ruta rutaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ruta na rutaí Genitive an ruta na rutaí Dative leis an ruta don ruta leis na rutaí

Declension of ruta

Fourth 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

Noun

ruta f (plural rute)

1. rue (plant)

Derived terms

• rutato

Anagrams

• -tura, Artù, Traù, tura, urta

Kabuverdianu

Noun

ruta

1. black seabream, Spondyliosoma cantharus

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Karelian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian руда (ruda).

Noun

ruta (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. ore
2. specifically bog iron
3. pearl of an oyster

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)

1. to take out from^[2]
2. to remove, to take away^[2]

   Mũmeni ũngĩ amũrutaga mbakĩ iniũrũ. ― One who hates another takes away his sniff from his nose.^[3]

3. to teach^[4][5]
4. to obtain, to produce^[2]

   Ndũgũ ĩrutagwo njĩra-inĩ.^[6] ― Friendship is usually made on the road.

Synonyms

• (to teach): kuonia

Derived terms

(Verbs)

• kũrutana
• kũrutĩra

(Nouns)

• mũrutani class 1

(Idioms)

• kũruta wĩra^[2]

(Proverbs)

• mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ iniũrũ

References

1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 58–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 24.
3. Wanjohi, G. J. (1997). The Wisdom and Philosophy of the Gikuyu Proverbs: The Kihooto World-view, p. 244. Paulines Publications Africa.
4. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
5. “ruta” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. 413–414. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
6. Njũrũri, Ngũmbũ (1969). Gĩkũyũ Proverbs, p. 104.

Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈruːta]

Noun

ruta

1. grass

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “ruta”, in Lamboya word list‎, Leiden: LexiRumah

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ), from a Peloponnesian language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈruː.ta/, [ˈruːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.ta/, [ˈruːt̪ä]

Noun

rūta f (genitive rūtae); first declension

1. rue (bitter herb)

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

1. inflection of rutus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

rutā

1. ablative feminine singular of rutus

Descendants

• Catalan: ruda
• Dalmatian: roita
• Friulian: rude
• Italian: ruta
• Old French: rue, rude
  • French: rue
  • → Irish: rú
  • → Middle English: rue, ruwe, rwe, rewe, reuwe, rew
    • English: rue
    • Scots: rew
  • → Welsh: ruw
• Portuguese: arruda
• Romanian: rută
• Romansch: ruta
• Sicilian: aruta
• Spanish: ruda
• Translingual: Ruta
• → Ukrainian: ру́та (rúta)
• Venetian: ruda, rua
• → Proto-West Germanic: *rūtā (see there for further 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 Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ruten

Noun

ruta m sg or f sg

1. definite feminine singular of rute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ruta f sg

1. definite singular of rute

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

ruta

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: ru‧ta

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin rūta.

Noun

ruta f (diminutive rutka, related adjective ruciany)

1. rue (bitter herb)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	ruta	ruty
genitive	ruty	rut
dative	rucie	rutom
accusative	rutę	ruty
instrumental	rutą	rutami
locative	rucie	rutach
vocative	ruto	ruty

Declension of ruta

Derived terms

nouns

• rutowate

 

proper nouns

• Ruta

 

verbs

• siać rutę impf

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French route. Doublet of raut.

Noun

ruta f

1. (obsolete, rare) route

   Synonyms: kierunek, kurs, marszruta

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German Rute／Ruthe.

Noun

ruta f

1. flexible rod used for corporal punishment

   Hypernym: pręt

2. (historical) rod (unit of measure)

   Synonym: pręt

Related terms

nouns

• szpicruta

 

Further reading

• ruta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ruta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈru.ta]

Noun

ruta f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of rută

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

Verb

ruta

1. to learn
2. to read

Descendants

• → Phuthi: -rûda

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

Noun

ruta f (plural rutas)

1. highway
2. route

   Synonyms: recorrido, rumbo

3. (computing) path

Derived terms

• enrutar
• hoja de ruta
• Ruta de la Seda
• ruta fija
• rutero

 

Further reading

• “ruta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Ruta (bollspel)

Wikipedia ^sv

The game ruta (“foursquare”).

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

1. square, tile, box (as on a checkerboard)
2. windowpane (a piece of glass)

   Synonym: fönsterruta

3. panel (single frame in a comic strip)
4. lozenge (diamond-shaped heraldic charge)
5. (games) foursquare

   Synonyms: bengtboll, king, kingboll, king out, nigger, nogger

Declension

Declension of ruta
	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).

Noun

ruta c

1. rue (plant of the genus Ruta)

   Synonym: vinruta

Declension

Declension of ruta
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ruta	rutan	rutor	rutorna
Genitive	rutas	rutans	rutors	rutornas

Anagrams

• tura

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ruta.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾuta/ [ˈɾuː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: ru‧ta

Noun

ruta (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆ)

1. route; itinerary

   Synonyms: itineraryo, rumbo, landas, daan, daanan, yagban

Derived terms

• iruta
• magruta
• rumuta

 

See also

• kalsada
• kalye

 

Further reading

• “ruta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• urat

Yámana

Etymology

From Spanish ruta.

Noun

ruta

1. path