robustus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin rōbus

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin rōbustus

From rōbus (“a kind of hard oak; hardness, strength”) + -tus. Compare typologically Russian здоро́вый (zdoróvyj) (akin to де́рево (dérevo)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [roːˈbʊs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [roˈbus.tus]

Adjective

rōbustus (feminine rōbusta, neuter rōbustum, comparative rōbustior, superlative rōbustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. of oak, oaken
2. (by extension) hard, firm, solid, robust

   Synonyms: dūrus, firmus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rōbustus	rōbusta	rōbustum		rōbustī	rōbustae	rōbusta
genitive	rōbustī	rōbustae	rōbustī		rōbustōrum	rōbustārum	rōbustōrum
dative	rōbustō	rōbustae	rōbustō		rōbustīs
accusative	rōbustum	rōbustam	rōbustum		rōbustōs	rōbustās	rōbusta
ablative	rōbustō	rōbustā	rōbustō		rōbustīs
vocative	rōbuste	rōbusta	rōbustum		rōbustī	rōbustae	rōbusta

Related terms

• rōborārium
• rōborascō
• rōborātus
• rōboreus
• rōborō
• rōbur
• rōburneus
• rōbus
• rōbustē
• rōbusteus

Descendants

• → Catalan: robust
• → English: robust
• → French: robuste
  • → Dutch: robuust
• → Galician: robusto
• → Italian: robusto
• → Romanian: robust
• → Portuguese: robusto
• → Spanish: robusto

References

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