Rubricatus

See also: rubricatus

Latin

From rū̆brī̆cātus (“painted red”).

View of the river Llobregat

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ruː.briːˈkaː.tus/, [ruːbriːˈkäːt̪ʊs̠] or IPA^(key): /ru.briˈkaː.tus/, [rʊbrɪˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ru.briˈka.tus/, [rubriˈkäːt̪us]
There is conflicting evidence about the lengths of the vowels in the first two syllables of the adjective rū̆brī̆cātus and verb rū̆brī̆cō. These words appear to have originally been derived from the noun rūbrīca (“red ochre”), where the ī is certainly long and the ū likely so, but pronunciations like rŭbrĭcātus, rŭbrĭcō developed at some point, plausibly by reinterpretation of the word as being composed of the related adjective rŭber (“red”) and the verb-forming suffix -ĭcō. The vowels in Catalan Llobregat represent the outcomes of Latin short -ŭ- and -ĭ-.

Rū̆brī̆cātus m sg (genitive Rū̆brī̆cātī); second declension

A river in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Llobregat
- c. 45 CE, Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 2.90.3:
  Inde ad Tarraconem parva sunt oppida Blande, Iluro, Baetulo, Barcino, Subur, Tolobi; parva flumina Baetulo iuxta Iovis montem, Rubricatum in Barcinonis litore, inter Subur et Tolobin Maius. Tarraco urbs est in his oris maritimarum opulentissima. Tulcis eam modicus amnis, super ingens Hiberus Dertosam adtingit.
- Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia 3.21.7:
  Regio Cessetania, flumen Subi, colonia Tarracon, Scipionum opus, sicut Carthago Poenorum. Regio Ilergetum, oppidum Subur, flumen Rubricatum, a quo Lae<e>tani et Indigetes.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

“Rubricatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Rubricatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“Rubricatus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly