ferrugo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ferrūgō (“iron rust”), from ferrum (“iron”).

Noun

ferrugo (uncountable)

1. (phytopathology) rust (plant disease).

Related terms

• ferruginous

References

• “ferrugo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

substratebor.

Old Latin *fersom

Latin ferrum

Latin -ūgō

Latin ferrūgō

From ferrum (“iron”) + -ūgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɛrˈruː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ferˈruː.ɡo]

Noun

ferrūgō f (genitive ferrūginis); third declension

1. rust (or the colour), specifically iron-rust or its colour

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ferrūgō	ferrūginēs
genitive	ferrūginis	ferrūginum
dative	ferrūginī	ferrūginibus
accusative	ferrūginem	ferrūginēs
ablative	ferrūgine	ferrūginibus
vocative	ferrūgō	ferrūginēs

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Sicilian: firrunìa
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: fruzna
  • Lombard: früzan
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: ferruño
    • Asturian: ferruñu, (Western) furruñu
  • Galician: ferruxe, furruxe
  • Portuguese: ferrugem
    • → Mirandese: ferruge
  • ⇒ Spanish: herrugento (“rusty”)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin:
  • *ferrīgine
    • Catalan: ferritja
  • *ferrūca
    • Italian: ferruche
• Borrowings:
  • → English: ferrugo, ⇒ ferruginous
  • → Middle French: ferruge, ⇒ ferrugin, ferruginé
  • → Italian: ferrugine

See also

• ferrūmen

References

• “ferrugo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ferrugo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ferrugo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ferrugo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ferrūgō” on page 691/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ferrugo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 470
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “ferrugo”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 245