rubidus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
rubidus (plural rubiduses)
- A butterfly, hybrid between the viceroy (Limenitis archippus) and the red-spotted purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax).
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”) + -idus. Related to rubeō (“to be red”), but the different ablaut grades suggest that the adjective is not directly derived from the stative verb.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈruː.bi.dus/, [ˈruːbɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bi.dus/, [ˈruːbid̪us]
Adjective edit
rūbidus (feminine rūbida, neuter rūbidum); first/second-declension adjective
- dark red
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26.14:
- "Rubidus" autem est rufus atrior et nigrore multo inustus
- However, "rubidus" is a darker red and burned with much blackness.
- "Rubidus" autem est rufus atrior et nigrore multo inustus
- (of bread, precise meaning uncertain) red-brown (or) twice-baked (or) partially baked
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | rūbidus | rūbida | rūbidum | rūbidī | rūbidae | rūbida | |
Genitive | rūbidī | rūbidae | rūbidī | rūbidōrum | rūbidārum | rūbidōrum | |
Dative | rūbidō | rūbidō | rūbidīs | ||||
Accusative | rūbidum | rūbidam | rūbidum | rūbidōs | rūbidās | rūbida | |
Ablative | rūbidō | rūbidā | rūbidō | rūbidīs | |||
Vocative | rūbide | rūbida | rūbidum | rūbidī | rūbidae | rūbida |
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ "*Jocidus: an account of the Latin adjectives in -idus", Alan J Nussbaum, 1999.
Further reading edit
- “rubidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rubidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.