rubicundus

Latin

Etymology

rubeo +‎ -cundus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rʊ.bɪˈkʊn.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ru.biˈkun̪.d̪us]

Adjective

rubicundus (feminine rubicunda, neuter rubicundum, comparative rubicundior); first/second-declension adjective

1. red, ruddy, rubicund
   • early 11th century, Egbert van Luik, "De puella a lupellis servata", Fecunda ratis, Ernst Voigt (ed.), publ. by Max Niemeyer, 1889, page 233, lines 474-476.

     Quidam suscepit sacro de fonte puellam,
     Cui dedit et tunicam rubicundo uellere textam.
     Quinquagesima sancta fuit babtismatis huius,

     Somebody raised the girl from the baptismal font,
     and gave to her a riding hood woven from red wool.
     [For] Holy Pentecost was the day of her baptism.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rubicundus	rubicunda	rubicundum		rubicundī	rubicundae	rubicunda
genitive	rubicundī	rubicundae	rubicundī		rubicundōrum	rubicundārum	rubicundōrum
dative	rubicundō	rubicundae	rubicundō		rubicundīs
accusative	rubicundum	rubicundam	rubicundum		rubicundōs	rubicundās	rubicunda
ablative	rubicundō	rubicundā	rubicundō		rubicundīs
vocative	rubicunde	rubicunda	rubicundum		rubicundī	rubicundae	rubicunda

Descendants

• → Catalan: rubicund
• → English: rubicund
• → French: rubicond
• → Spanish: rubicundo

References

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