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See also: Rubus
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the genus name, from Latin rubus.
Noun[edit]
rubus (plural rubuses)
- (botany) Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”) (compare dialectal Norwegian erre, orr (“bush”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”), Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower, rose”), Old English word (“thornbush”)). See rose.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈrʊbʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈruːbus]
Noun[edit]
rubus m (genitive rubī); second declension
- bramble, blackberry bush
- Apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et non conbureretur (Exodus 3:2, Vulgate)
- a blackberry (fruit), raspberry (fruit)
Declension[edit]
Sometimes treated as a feminine noun, but still Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rubus | rubī |
Genitive | rubī | rubōrum |
Dative | rubō | rubīs |
Accusative | rubum | rubōs |
Ablative | rubō | rubīs |
Vocative | rube | rubī |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: arug, rug
- → English: rubus
- Interlingua: rubo
- Italian: rovo
- Romanian: rug
- Spanish: rubo
- Translingual: rubus
References[edit]
- “rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rubus 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)
- rubus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
rubus
- Alternative form of robous
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