rubus
See also: Rubus
English edit
Etymology edit
From the genus name, from Latin rubus.
Noun edit
rubus (plural rubuses)
- (botany) Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈrʊbʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈruːbus]
Noun edit
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 edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: arug, rug
- → English: rubus
- Interlingua: rubo
- Italian: rovo
- Romanian: rug
- Spanish: rubo
- Translingual: rubus
References edit
- “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 edit
Noun edit
rubus
- Alternative form of robous