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Latin
Etymology
From rūbrīca (“red ochre”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). When scanned as rŭbrĭcō, perhaps reanalyzed or recomposed as ruber (“red”) + -icō (verb-forming suffix); compare albicō (“to make white, whiten”) from albus (“white”) + -icō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ruːˈbriː.koː/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ruˈbri.ko/,
- If derived from rūbrīca, as it appears to be, the vowels in the first two syllables should both be long. Hoewever, in the sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus, the first two syllables scan short (as rŭbrĭc-), possibly due to influence from the ŭ in the related words ruber (“red”) and rubeō (“to be red”) and the ĭ in the ending -ĭcō found in verbs such as albicō and amāricō. (Compare the use in Italian of a "less correct" pronunciation io rùbrico in addition to io rubrìco for the verb rubricare.[1])
Verb
rūbrīcō (present infinitive rūbrīcāre, perfect active rūbrīcāvī, supine rūbrīcātum); first conjugation (uncommon)
- to color red
Conjugation
References
- ^ rubricare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Further reading
- “rubrico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rubrico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
rubrico
- first-person singular present indicative of rubricar
Spanish
Verb
rubrico
- first-person singular present indicative of rubricar