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- Latin · borrowed fromruīna montium“collapse of mountains”
- English todayruina montium
Borrowed from Latin ruīna montium (“collapse of mountains”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ruina montium
Today it means: A mining technique in Ancient Rome, similar in principle to Pascal's barrel, where miners would excavate narrow cavities in a mountain and fill them with water to cause pressures high enough to fragment the rock. Full definition →
Latin ruīna montium