rubus
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English
Etymology
From the genus name, from Latin rubus.
Noun
rubus (plural rubuses)
- (botany) Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”) (compare dialectal Norwegian erre, orr (“bush”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”), Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower, rose”), Old English word (“thornbush”)). See rose.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/,
Noun
rubus m (genitive rubī); second declension
- bramble, blackberry bush
- Apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et non conbureretur (Exodus 3:2, Vulgate)
- a blackberry (fruit), raspberry (fruit)
Declension
Sometimes treated as a feminine noun, but still Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rubus | rubī |
| genitive | rubī | rubōrum |
| dative | rubō | rubīs |
| accusative | rubum | rubōs |
| ablative | rubō | rubīs |
| vocative | rube | rubī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: arug, rug
- → English: rubus
- Interlingua: rubo
- Italian: rovo
- Romanian: rug
- Spanish: rubo
- Translingual: rubus
References
- “rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rubus 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)
- rubus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Noun
rubus
- Alternative form of robous