rubine

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin rubīnus (“carbuncle, ruby”).

Noun

rubine (countable and uncountable, plural rubines)

1. A reddish aniline dye.
2. (obsolete) A ruby.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Some [wines] deepe empurpled as the hyacine ,
     Some as the rubine

Anagrams

• Brunei, Burien, Burnie, brunie, burnie

Latin

Noun

rubīne m

1. vocative singular of rubīnus

Anagrams

• Breuni