rubrica

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See also: rubricá and rúbrica

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rubrīca (“red ochre”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ruˈbri.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Hyphenation: ru‧brì‧ca

Noun

rubrica f (plural rubriche)

  1. rubric (a heading in a book highlighted in red)
  2. notebook (consisting of indexed paper)
    1. address book
    2. phonebook
  3. column or page (in a newspaper)
    la rubrica sportiva ― the sports column
    la rubrica economica ― the business column
    la rubrica politica ― the political column
  4. spot (part of a broadcast), time
    una rubrica sportiva di un programma televisivo
    a spot on a television program on sport

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”), the same root as ruber (“red”). Per Nussbaum, the Classical Latin form rūbrīca is the nominalized feminine form of a first/second declension adjective whose older form can be reconstructed as *rou̯brīk(u̯)o-, from *h₁re/owdʰri-h₃kʷ-o-, formed as a compound of an i-stem noun *h₁re/owdʰri- and the zero grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ruːˈbriː.ka/,
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ruˈbri.ka/,
  • The long vowel in the first syllable is attested in Plautus Truculentus 294 (a poet who does not regularly allow word-medial br to make position after a short vowel) as well as in other occurrences in verse.[2]

Noun

rūbrīca f (genitive rūbrīcae); first declension

  1. red ochre, ruddle (red earth for coloring)
  2. (by extension) rubric (title of a law, written in red)
  3. (by extension) a law or the law
    • c. 62 CE, Persius, Saturae 5.90, (dactylic hexameter):
      cur mihi non liceat, iussit quodcumque voluntas / excepto siquid Masuri rubrica vetabit?
      • 1924 translation by George Gilbert Ramsay[3]
        Why am I not free to do everything that I want to do, excepting only what the red-titled law of Masurius forbids?

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rūbrīca rūbrīcae
genitive rūbrīcae rūbrīcārum
dative rūbrīcae rūbrīcīs
accusative rūbrīcam rūbrīcās
ablative rūbrīcā rūbrīcīs
vocative rūbrīca rūbrīcae

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References

  1. ^ "*Jocidus: an account of the Latin adjectives in -idus", Alan J Nussbaum, 1999. (§3.1.2, page 385; §4.2.2, page 388; note 111, page 415)
  2. ^ ibid., citing Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “rubeō, -ēs”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 578
  3. ^ Juvenal and Persius. With an English translation by G.G. Ramsay, series: "Loeb Classical Library", edited by T.E. Page, E. Capps, and W.H.D. Rouse, page 379

Further reading

  • “rubrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rubrica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rubrica 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)
  • rubrica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “rubrica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Example of a rubrica (simplified signature). This one in particular is a fictitious example, from a hypothetical signer called José dos Reis.

Learned borrowing from Latin rubrīca (“red ochre”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ikɐ
  • Hyphenation: ru‧bri‧ca

Noun

rubrica f (plural rubricas)

  1. initials (simplified signature)
  2. heading; subject
  3. (journalism) feature, column
  4. rubric

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ru‧bri‧ca

Verb

rubrica

  1. inflection of rubricar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

rubrica

  1. inflection of rubricar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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