rubigo

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English

Etymology

From Latin rūbīgō.

Pronunciation

Noun

rubigo (uncountable)

  1. (phytopathology, obsolete) rust (fungal disease of plants)
    • 1804, Annals of agriculture and other useful arts:
      Dr. Darwin supposes that the rubigo which shows itself in a ferruginous powder beneath the leaves of vegetables previously diseased, may be a fungus (like the eurisiphe or mildew) […]

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Latin

Noun

rūbīgō f (genitive rūbīginis); third declension (proscribed)

  1. Alternative form of rōbīgō (“rust”)
    • 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 187:
      robigo non rubigo
      robigo, not rubigo

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rūbīgō rūbīginēs
Genitive rūbīginis rūbīginum
Dative rūbīginī rūbīginibus
Accusative rūbīginem rūbīginēs
Ablative rūbīgine rūbīginibus
Vocative rūbīgō rūbīginēs

References

  • “rubigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rubigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rubigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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