Ruindows

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ruindows, Ruindous, Ruíndous

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-

Proto-Indo-European *h₃rew-der.

Latin ruō

Latin ruīnader.?

Old Galician-Portuguese roin

Portuguese ruim

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts

Proto-Germanic *windaz

Old Norse vindr

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-Norse *ᚨᚢᚷᚨ (*auga)

Old Norse auga

Old Norse vindaugabor.

Middle English wyndowe

English window

English Windowsubor.

Portuguese Windows

blend

Portuguese Ruindows

Blend of ruim (“bad”) + Windows.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁuˈĩ.dows/ [huˈĩ.doʊ̯s], (faster) /ˈʁwĩ.dows/ [ˈhwĩ.doʊ̯s], /ʁuˈĩ.dus/ [huˈĩ.dus], (faster) /ˈʁwĩ.dus/ [ˈhwĩ.dus]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁuˈĩ.dows/ [huˈĩ.doʊ̯s], (faster) /ˈʁwĩ.dows/ [ˈhwĩ.doʊ̯s], /ʁuˈĩ.dus/ [huˈĩ.dus], (faster) /ˈʁwĩ.dus/ [ˈhwĩ.dus]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁuˈĩ.dowʃ/ [χuˈĩ.doʊ̯ʃ], (faster) /ˈʁwĩ.dowʃ/ [ˈχwĩ.doʊ̯ʃ], /ʁuˈĩ.duʃ/ [χuˈĩ.duʃ], (faster) /ˈʁwĩ.duʃ/ [ˈχwĩ.duʃ]

• Audio (Brazil):

  (file)

Proper noun

Ruindows m

1. (Brazil, informal, dysphemistic) Windoze
   • 2000 April, Ricardo P. Cesar, quoting Digital Killer, “Space Invaders”, in Paulo Lima, editor, Trip, volume 13, number 77, São Paulo, retrieved 9 October 2023, page 38:

     Problema é q as pessoas não querem aprender nenhum Sistema Operacional com base em Unix pq é mt complicado e tal... mas se mudarmos a ideia deles o Ruindows vai pro buraco!

     The thing is people don't want to learn any Unix-based operating system bc it's too complicated and such... but if we change their minds Windoze goes down!

   • 2022, Sammuel Possi, Minha Vida em Lag‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Bibliomundi, →ISBN, retrieved 9 October 2023, Nervoso 61:

     [...] e aí lembra das novas séries de erros cometidos em 2014 e dezembro de 2015; aí amanheceu e você fica dando tela azul, tipo o ruindows: ERROR.

     [...] then you remember the new series of errors you made in 2014 and December 2015; then it's morning and you get a blue sceen like Windoze: ERROR.