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Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French rubrique, from Latin rubrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
rúibric f (genitive singular rúibrice, nominative plural rúibricí)
- rubric, heading
- Synonyms: ceannscríbhinn, ceannteideal
Declension
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ruibric”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rúibric”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “rúibric”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “rúibric”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024