rubeus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈru.be.us/, [ˈrʊbeʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.be.us/, [ˈruːbeus]
Etymology 1
From rubeō (“I am red, reddish”).
Alternative forms
- robeus
Adjective
rubeus (feminine rubea, neuter rubeum); first/second-declension adjective
- red, reddish (colour)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rubeus | rubea | rubeum | rubeī | rubeae | rubea | |
| Genitive | rubeī | rubeae | rubeī | rubeōrum | rubeārum | rubeōrum | |
| Dative | rubeō | rubeō | rubeīs | ||||
| Accusative | rubeum | rubeam | rubeum | rubeōs | rubeās | rubea | |
| Ablative | rubeō | rubeā | rubeō | rubeīs | |||
| Vocative | rubee | rubea | rubeum | rubeī | rubeae | rubea | |
Synonyms
- (red): ruber, russus
Related terms
- rubēdō
- rubefaciō
- rubelliānus
- rubelliō
- rubellulus
- rubellus
- rubēns
- rubeō
- ruber
- rubēscō
- rubicundulus
- rubicundus
- rubidus
- rubor
- rubrīca
- rubricātus
- rubrīcō
- rubrīcōsus
- rubrus
Descendants
- Catalan: roig
- Galician: rubio, roibo
- Interlingua: rubie
- Italian: robbio
- Occitan: roge
- Old Franco-Provençal: rogeo, rojo
- Franco-Provençal: rogeo
- Old French: roge
- Middle French: rouge
- French: rouge
- → English: rouge
- Haitian Creole: rouj, wouj
- → Hijazi Arabic: روج (rōj)
- → Japanese: ルージュ (rūju)
- Louisiana Creole French: rouj
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: rouge
- → Serbo-Croatian: ruž
- → Swedish: rouge
- → Turkish: ruj
- French: rouge
- Norman: rouage (Guernsey), rouoge (Jersey, continental Normandy)
- Walloon: rodje
- Middle French: rouge
- Portuguese: rúbeo, ruivo
- Romanian: roib
- Sardinian: arrúbiu, rúbiu, ruju
- Spanish: roya, royo; → rúbeo; rubio
- → Tagalog: rubyo
Etymology 2
From rubus (“bramble bush”) + -eus.
Adjective
rubeus (feminine rubea, neuter rubeum); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to the bramble bush
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rubeus | rubea | rubeum | rubeī | rubeae | rubea | |
| Genitive | rubeī | rubeae | rubeī | rubeōrum | rubeārum | rubeōrum | |
| Dative | rubeō | rubeō | rubeīs | ||||
| Accusative | rubeum | rubeam | rubeum | rubeōs | rubeās | rubea | |
| Ablative | rubeō | rubeā | rubeō | rubeīs | |||
| Vocative | rubee | rubea | rubeum | rubeī | rubeae | rubea | |
Related terms
- rubus
References
- “rubeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rubeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rubeus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rubeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette