Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, of or pertaining to the Ukrainian people (earlier Ruthene, 1540s), from Medieval Latin Rutheni "the Little Russians," a derivative of Russi (see Russia). For consonant change, compare Medieval Latin Prut(h)eni, from Prussi "Prussians." Another word in the same sense was Russniak.
Wiktionary
a. (context mineralogy English) Describing minerals containing ruthenium
Wikipedia
Ruthenian may refer to:
- Ruthenia, a name applied to various parts of Eastern Europe
- Ruthenians, a historic ethnic group
- Ruthenian Catholic Church, the sui iuris particular church united to the Bishop of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church
- Minerals containing the element Ruthenium
Usage examples of "ruthenian".
In the treatment of the Ukrainians and Ruthenians involved in liberation, Poland equalled any of the atrocities which had been the burden of her song during her years of martyrdom.
Races other than the Turkish, whose immigration in 1914 was more than one-third illiterate, include the Dalmatians, Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Russians, Ruthenians, Italians, Lithuanians, and Roumanians.
Hacha, the President of Czechoslovakia, dismissed the autonomous Ruthenian government from office, and on the night of March 9-10 the autonomous Slovakian government.
The agricultural districts and villages of the mid-eastern valleys of Europe are sending their strongest men and youths, nourished of good diet and in pure air, stolid and care-free, into that dim canyon-Servians, Croatians, Ruthenians, Lithuanians, Slovaks, with Italians, Poles, and Russian Jews.