Translingual

Proper noun

Rubus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – the brambles including the raspberry and blackberry.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Rosales - order; Rosaceae - family; Rosoideae - subfamily; Rubeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Rubus subg. Anoplobatus, Rubus subg. Chamaebatus, Rubus subg. Chamaemorus, Rubus subg. Comaropsis, Rubus subg. Cyclactis, Rubus subg. Diemenicus, Rubus subg. Dalibardastrum, Rubus subg. Idaeobatus, Rubus subg. Lampobatus, Rubus subg. Malachobatus, Rubus subg. Micranthobatus, Rubus subg. Orobatus, Rubus subg. Rubus - subgenera
  • See Rubus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia or Rubus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for species.

English

Noun

rubus ‎(plural rubuses)

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo ‎(“sweetbriar”) (compare dialectal Norwegian erre, orr ‎(“bush”), Albanian hurdhe ‎(“ivy”), Persian گل ‎(gol, “flower”), Old English word ‎(“thornbush”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.bus/

Noun

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)

Inflection

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

Related terms

• ruber

Descendants

• Italian: rovo, rogo
• Romanian: rug
• Old Spanish: rubo
• Translingual: Rubus

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rubus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.