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Latin
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Etymology
From earlier rōbus (with change of nominative after the pattern of iecur), from Proto-Italic *rouβos ~ *rouβoses, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”), named for its reddish hardwood and thus cognate to ruber.
Pronunciation
Noun
rōbur n (genitive rōboris); third declension
- an oak tree
- Designating a specific kind and opposed to quercus, aesculus.
- hardness
- strength
- Synonyms: vīs, ops, vehementia
c. 98 CE,
Tacitus,
Germania 6.4:
- In ūniversum aestimantī plūs penes peditem rōboris.
- In general, to one estimating, more of their strength is in their infantry.
- stronghold
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
- Note: an oblique stem rōburis was advocated by some grammarians, such as Gnipho.
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References
- “robur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “robur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- robur 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)
- robur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “robur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “robur”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “robur”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 525