rutilus

See also: Rutilus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”), whence rubeō, ruber, rūfus, russus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈru.ti.lus/, [ˈrʊt̪ɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.ti.lus/, [ˈruːt̪ilus]

Adjective

rutilus (feminine rutila, neuter rutilum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (yellowish) red
2. strawberry blonde

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	rutilus	rutila	rutilum		rutilī	rutilae	rutila
Genitive	rutilī	rutilae	rutilī		rutilōrum	rutilārum	rutilōrum
Dative	rutilō		rutilō		rutilīs
Accusative	rutilum	rutilam	rutilum		rutilōs	rutilās	rutila
Ablative	rutilō	rutilā	rutilō		rutilīs
Vocative	rutile	rutila	rutilum		rutilī	rutilae	rutila

Derived terms

• rutilō
• Rutilius

Descendants

• Portuguese: rútilo

References

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