ruinosus
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
Latin > English
ruinosus ruinosa, ruinosum ADJ :: ruinous, fallen, ruined
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
rŭīnōsus: a, um, adj. ruina, of buildings.
I Tumbling down, going to ruin, ruinous (rare but class.): aedes, * Cic. Off. 3, 13, 54: parietes, Sen. Ira, 3, 35 fin. (better rimosos).—*
II Poet., transf., that has already fallen, ruined, in ruins: ruinosas occulit herba domos, Ov. H. 1, 56.—Plur. subst.: rŭīnōsa, ōrum, ruins: instaurare, Vulg. Ezech. 36, 33; 33, 27.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
rŭīnōsus,¹⁴ a, um (ruina), ruineux, qui menace ruine : Cic. Off. 3, 54 || ruiné, écroulé : Ov. H. 1, 56.
Latin > German (Georges)
ruīnōsus, a, um (ruina), I) den Einsturz drohend, baufällig, aedes, Cic. de off. 3, 54: parietes, Sen. de ira 3, 35 extr.: bildl., quaedam sibi placendi altitudo ruinosa, Augustin. de civ. dei 21, 16. p. 520, 12 D2.: tenebris et parietinis quibusdam animae ruinosus, Ambros. epist. 28, 3. – II) übtr., eingefallen, eingestürzt, domus, Trümmer der Häuser, Ov. her. 1, 56. – subst., ruīnōsa, ōrum, n., Trümmer, Ruinen, Vulg. Ezech. 23, 24 u. 27; 36, 10 u. 33.
Latin > Chinese
ruinosus, a, um. adj. :: 東倒西歪者
