Roubaix

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuˈbeɪ/
• (US city) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbeɪ/

Proper noun

Roubaix

1. A city in Hauts-de-France, France.
2. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
   • 1970, Lewis H. Shapiro and John Paul Cries, Ore Deposits in Rocks of Paleozoic and Tertiary Age of the Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey Numbered Series 70-300, page 27

     The basal conglomerate of the Deadwood formation occurs as numerous lenticular beds irregularly distributed along a belt about two miles wide extending from the vicinity of Roubaix to Blacktail Gulch.

Translations

city in Hauts-de-France

• Dutch: Robaais, Roubaix
• French: Roubaix (fr)
• Greek: Ρουμπαί (el) (Roumpaí)
• Japanese: ルーベ (Rūbe)
• Latin: Rosbacum m
• Picard: Roubés
• Russian: Рубе́ m (Rubé)
• Walloon: Roubés
• West Flemish: Roboais

French

Etymology

Probably of Frankish origin, from *rausa (“reed”) + *baki (“brook”), from Proto-Germanic *rauzą + *bakiz. For the first element see roseau (“reed”).

Pronunciation

• (French) IPA^(key): /ʁu.bɛ/

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Proper noun

Roubaix ?

1. A city in the Nord department, France
   • 1989, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Collected works: Marx and Engels, 1874-83, →ISBN, page 394
     Volume 24 of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. New York, International Publishers
     Extract from article “Two Model Town Councils” written by Frederick Engels, originally published in The Labour Standard No. 8 on June 25, 1881

     Shortly before the establishment of the Labour Standard, there was a strike of factory operatives in the town of Roubaix, close on the Belgian frontier.

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2. Patronymic name affixed with “de”, given after the city's name: Roubaix
   • 1929, Norman Giles, Keerboskloof: A Novel, OCLC 9736252, page 9

     Groenvlei was a fine old plaas, with curling gables and brown thatched roof. The de Roubaix family had occupied it for many scores years.

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Derived terms

• Roubaisian

Related terms

• Roubaignos
• roubaisien
• Roubaisien

References

• Guinet, Louis (1982). Les emprunts gallo-romans au germanique (du Ier à la fin du Ve siècle) [The Gallo-Romance borrowings from Germanic (from the 1st century to the end of the 5th century)]. Bibliothèque française et romane. Série A, Manuels et études linguistiques ; 44 (in French). Paris, F: Klincksieck. pp. 32–33