rubus

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English

Etymology

From the genus name, from Latin rubus.

Noun

rubus (plural rubuses)

  1. (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.

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Pronunciation

Noun

rubus m (genitive rubī); second declension

  1. bramble, blackberry bush
    Apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et non conbureretur (Exodus 3:2, Vulgate)
  2. a blackberry (fruit), raspberry (fruit)

Declension

Sometimes treated as a feminine noun, but still Second-declension noun.

Case 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

  1. Alternative form of robous
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