rubus

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English

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Etymology

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From the genus name, from Latin rubus.

Noun

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rubus (plural rubuses)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (sweetbriar) (compare dialectal Norwegian erre, orr (bush), Albanian hurdhe (ivy), Old Persian *vr̥dah (flower, rose), Old English word (thornbush)). See rose.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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rubus m (genitive rubī); second declension

  1. bramble, blackberry bush
    Apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et non conbureretur (Exodus 3:2, Vulgate)
  2. a blackberry (fruit), raspberry (fruit)

Declension

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Sometimes treated as a feminine noun, but still Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rubus rubī
Genitive rubī rubōrum
Dative rubō rubīs
Accusative rubum rubōs
Ablative rubō rubīs
Vocative rube rubī

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Aromanian: arug, rug
  • English: rubus
  • Interlingua: rubo
  • Italian: rovo
  • Romanian: rug
  • Spanish: rubo
  • Translingual: rubus

References

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  • rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rubus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rubus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

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Noun

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rubus

  1. Alternative form of robous