rubidus
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rubidus (plural rubiduses)
- A butterfly, hybrid between the viceroy (Limenitis archippus) and the red-spotted purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax).
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”) + -idus. Related to rubeō (“to be red”), but the different ablaut grades suggest that the adjective is not directly derived from the stative verb.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈruː.bi.dus/, [ˈruːbɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bi.dus/, [ˈruːbid̪us]
Adjective
[edit]rūbidus (feminine rūbida, neuter rūbidum); first/second-declension adjective
- dark red
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26.14:
- "Rubidus" autem est rufus atrior et nigrore multo inustus
- However, "rubidus" is a darker red and burned with much blackness.
- "Rubidus" autem est rufus atrior et nigrore multo inustus
- (of bread, precise meaning uncertain) red-brown (or) twice-baked (or) partially baked
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | rūbidus | rūbida | rūbidum | rūbidī | rūbidae | rūbida | |
genitive | rūbidī | rūbidae | rūbidī | rūbidōrum | rūbidārum | rūbidōrum | |
dative | rūbidō | rūbidae | rūbidō | rūbidīs | |||
accusative | rūbidum | rūbidam | rūbidum | rūbidōs | rūbidās | rūbida | |
ablative | rūbidō | rūbidā | rūbidō | rūbidīs | |||
vocative | rūbide | rūbida | rūbidum | rūbidī | rūbidae | rūbida |
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "*Jocidus: an account of the Latin adjectives in -idus", Alan J Nussbaum, 1999.
Further reading
[edit]- “rubidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rubidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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