rubens

See also: Rubens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of rubeō (“I am red”).

Participle

rubēns (genitive rubentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. being red; red, reddish, ruddy
2. (growing) red, reddening, blushing

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	rubēns			rubentēs	rubentia
Genitive	rubentis			rubentium
Dative	rubentī			rubentibus
Accusative	rubentem	rubēns		rubentēs rubentīs	rubentia
Ablative	rubente rubentī1			rubentibus
Vocative	rubēns			rubentēs	rubentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: rovente
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: roent
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: rovent
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: rovent
  • Catalan: roent, rosent
  • Gascon: arroent
  • Occitan: rosent
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: rusien (Maybe influenced by rusio)
    • Aragonese: rusient, rusiente, ruxente

References

• “rubens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rubens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rubens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.