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ruit

ruit is a Latin form of ruo, meaning “rush, hurry; fall down, collapse; ruin”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative or 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 182 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 14.8: … consulibus unus omnium latronum taeterrimus; gerit idem bellum cum senatu populoque Romano; omnibus—quamquam ruit ipse suis cladibus—pestem, vastitatem, cruciatum, tormenta denuntiat: Dolabellae ferum et immane facinus quod …

Vergil, Aeneid 7.573: imponit regina manum. Ruit omnis in urbem

All forms of ruo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.