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Latin
Etymology
rubeo + -cundus
Pronunciation
Adjective
rubicundus (feminine rubicunda, neuter rubicundum, comparative rubicundior); first/second-declension adjective
- red, ruddy, rubicund
- early 11th century, Egbert van Luik, "De puella a lupellis servata", Fecunda ratis, Ernst Voigt (ed.), publ. by Max Niemeyer, 1889, page 233, lines 474-476.
Quidam suscepit sacro de fonte puellam,
Cui dedit et tunicam rubicundo uellere textam.
Quinquagesima sancta fuit babtismatis huius,- Somebody raised the girl from the baptismal font,
and gave to her a riding hood woven from red wool.
Holy Pentecost was the day of her baptism.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “rubicundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rubicundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rubicundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.