rus

Translingual

Symbol

rus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Russian.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rusten, from Middle Dutch rusten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rœs/

• Audio

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Verb

rus (present rus, present participle rustende, past participle gerus)

1. to rest

   Ek sal nie rus nie. ― I shall not rest.

Albanian

Adjective

rus (feminine ruse)

1. Russian

   gjuha ruse ― the Russian language

Related terms

• Rusi
• rusisht

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

rus (definite accusative rusu, plural ruslar)

1. a Russian (person)

Declension

Adjective

rus (comparative daha rus, superlative ən rus)

1. (in izafet II compounds) Russian (of, from, or pertaining to Russia)

   rus dili ― Russian language

   rus yazıçıları ― Russian writers

Derived terms

• rusca (“in Russian”)
• rusdilli (“Russian-language; Russian-speaking, Russophone”)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -us

Adjective

rus (feminine russa, masculine plural russos, feminine plural russes)

1. Russian (pertaining to Russia, to the Russian people, or to the Russian language)

Derived terms

• petit rus (“Ukrainian”)
• rus blanc (“Belorussian”)

Noun

rus m (plural russos, feminine russa)

1. Russian (an inhabitant of Russia or an ethnic Russian)

Derived terms

• petit rus (“Ukrainian”)
• rus blanc (“Belorussian”)

Noun

rus m (uncountable)

1. Russian (the Slavic language of the Russians)

Noun

rus m (plural rusos)

1. a long, thick overcoat

Further reading

• “rus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• ruaz

Etymology

From Latin radius. Compare Italian raggio, Romanian rază.

Noun

rus m

1. ray

Danish

Etymology 1

From an old Danish verb ruse, from Middle Low German rusen (“to rush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruːs/,

Noun

rus c (singular definite rusen, plural indefinite ruse)

1. intoxication
2. ecstasy

Derived terms

• rusmiddel

Related terms

• stoffer

Etymology 2

Maybe an abbreviaton of Latin depositurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rus/,

Noun

rus c (singular definite russen, plural indefinite russer)

1. freshman, first-year student

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʏs/

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• Hyphenation: rus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch rusch, rosch. The Juncaceae plants may constitute a parallel etymology ultimately deriving from Proto-West Germanic *ruskijā. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

rus m (plural russen, diminutive rusje n)

1. A sod, turf of soil, grass, reed or other vegetation
2. (botany) rush (Juncus, Luzula)
3. (botany) sea thrift (Armeria maritima)

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete) rusch, rosch, ruisch, risch, resch

Synonyms

• (sod): plag, zode
• (sea thrift): Engels gras n

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From rechercheur.

Noun

rus m (plural russen, diminutive rusje n)

1. (slang) police detective

Etymology 3

Adjective

rus

1. Alternative form of ruis

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

rus m

1. plural of ru

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rowos, from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁os (“open space, field”), from *rewh₁- (“to open, wide”). Cognate with Old Irish róe (“flat field”) and Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬵- (rauuah-, “open space”), English room.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ruːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /rus/,

Noun

rūs n (genitive rūris); third declension

1. countryside, country, lands, fields
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.927–928:

     ‘sarculā nunc dūrusque bidēns et vōmer aduncus, rūris opēs, niteant’

     ‘‘Now the hoes and hard mattocks and the curved plowshare – wealth of the countryside – may they gleam.’’
     (A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)

2. a farm, estate
3. a village

Usage notes

• Rūs is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case, other examples being domus and humus.
• Genitive plural and dative/ablative/locative plural forms are unattested in Classical Latin.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative.

Derived terms

• rūrālis
• rūrestris
• rūsticus
• rūs in urbe

See also

• cīvitās f
• oppidum n
• urbs f

References

• “rus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rus 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)
• rus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a pleasure-trip into the country: rus excurrere
    
  • to live in the country: ruri vivere, rusticari
    
  • to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 531

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rus m (definite singular rusen, uncountable)

1. The mental state of inebriation, intoxication, brought on by using alcohol or other drugs

Derived terms

• rusmiddel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʉːs/

Etymology 1

Noun

rus m (definite singular rusen, indefinite plural rusar, definite plural rusane)

1. intoxication (the state of being intoxicated or drunk)
2. extreme joy, ecstasy

Etymology 2

Verb

rus

1. imperative of rusa

References

• “rus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

rus m (invariable)

1. (historical) Rus (Scandinavian settlers and merchants in Eastern Europe)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian русь (rusʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rus/

Adjective

rus m or n (feminine singular rusă, masculine plural ruși, feminine and neuter plural ruse)

1. Russian

Declension

Noun

rus m (plural ruși, feminine equivalent rusoaică)

1. Russian
2. cockroach (dialectal)

Declension

Derived terms

• rusă
• rusesc

Related terms

• Rusia

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rˠus̪/

Noun

rus m (genitive singular ruis, no plural)

1. rice (grain)

   Synonym: rìs

Spanish

Noun

rus m (plural rus)

1. (historical) Rus (Scandinavian settlers and merchants in Eastern Europe, particulary in Kievan Rus')

Related terms

Further reading

• “rus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Deverbal from rus (“rush”).

Noun

rus n

1. a mental state of intoxication brought on by alcohol or other drugs

   Hon kunde inte minnas vad han gjort under ruset

   She couldn't remember what she had done while intoxicated

2. a state of exhilaration, a rush

   De kände ett rus när deras lag gjorde mål

   They felt a rush when their team scored

Declension

Derived terms

• alkoholrus
• drogrus
• rusdryck
• rusmedel

Related terms

• berusad

References

• rus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkmen

Alternative forms

• рус (Cyrillic)

Adjective

rus (comparative rusrak, superlative iň rus)

1. Russian

Noun

rus (definite accusative rusy, plural ruslar)

1. Russian (person)

Uzbek

Alternative forms

• рус (rus) (Cyrillic)

Adjective

rus

1. Russian

Noun

rus (plural ruslar)

1. Russian (person)

Declension