ruderalis

Translingual

Etymology

Latin ruderalis

Adjective

ruderalis

1. A species descriptor.
   • 1776, P. S. Pallas Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs in einem ausführlichen Auszuge. Erster Theil (in German), page 146:

     Hingegen war in dieser ganzen Gegend und bis an die Bäche Soroka, das gemeine Kali und der Ceratocarpus an deren Wegen nicht zu sehen, sondern die Fahrgleise an deren Stelle mit dem Wegbreit (Polygonum auiculare,) Wermuth und stinkendem Lepidio ruderali bewachsen.

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Derived terms

• Cannabis ruderalis
• Lepidium ruderale

Latin

Etymology

rūdus, rūder- (“rubble, debris”) +‎ -ālis

Adjective

rūderālis (neuter rūderāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (biology, New Latin) Pertaining to rubble, or post-catastrophic re-colonization.
   • M. B. Borkhausen, Tentamen dispositionis Plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum novam methodum a stanium situ et proportione; cum characteribus generum essentialibus. opus posthumum, 1809, p. 60:

     In Lepidio ruderali semper duas tantum antheras inveni, rudimenta autem filamentorum reliquorum mihi adesse videbantur.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	rūderālis	rūderāle		rūderālēs	rūderālia
Genitive	rūderālis			rūderālium
Dative	rūderālī			rūderālibus
Accusative	rūderālem	rūderāle		rūderālēs rūderālīs	rūderālia
Ablative	rūderālī			rūderālibus
Vocative	rūderālis	rūderāle		rūderālēs	rūderālia

Descendants

• → Catalan: ruderal (learned)
• → English: ruderal
• Translingual: ruderalis