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Noun
rudis
- plural of rude
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *Hrew- (“to tear up, dig up”). Related to rudus.
Adjective
rudis (neuter rude); third-declension two-termination adjective
- rough, raw, uncultivated
- unrefined, unskilled, awkward
- Synonyms: ineptus, iners, indocilis, incapāx
- Antonyms: vafer, callidus
- rude
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
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Noun
rudis f (genitive rudis); third declension
- small stick
- foil (given to a gladiator upon his discharge)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
Derived terms
References
- “rudis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rudis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rudis 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)
- rudis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or rudem esse)
- to be an inexperienced speaker: rudem, tironem ac rudem (opp. exercitatum) esse in dicendo
- to have had no experience in war: rei militaris rudem esse
- (ambiguous) to retire from service: rude donatum esse (Phil. 2. 29)
- “rudis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “rudis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin