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Rus

Rus

See also: rus, RUS, rus', rus., Rus., Rus', and R Us

English

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Rus (countable and uncountable, plural Rus)

  1. A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Kiev and the Dnieper gave rise to the Russian principalities. [from 19th c.]
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 504:
      In 860 the Rus’ streamed southwards and laid siege to Constantinople itself.
  2. The medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev; Kievan Rus.
  3. Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.

Usage notes

This neutral term is used more often instead of Russia or medieval Russia, acknowledging that the Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian people share the heritage of Rus.

With this innovation, it is sometimes unclear how to replace the adjective Russian in the same context. Alternatives include using the attributive noun, as in “the Rus princes”, or rewriting to use “of Rus”. The nonstandard adjective Rusian is seen very rarely.

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Noun

Rus (plural Rus)

  1. A person from Rus.
    • 1959, Boris Dmitrievich Grekov, Kiev Rus, Foreign Languages Pub. House, p 244:
      And if a Rus hits a Greek, or a Greek a Rus with a sword, a spear or any other weapon, he shall pay five litres of silver for his offence, in accordance with Rus law; and if he be unable (insolvent—Author) his property shall be sold for the best price it fetches, including the very clothes . . .
    • 1959, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Solov’ev, History of Russia from the Earliest Times [2000], v 3 (The Shift Northward: Kievan Rus, 1154–1228), p 223:
      If a Varangian claimed money from a Rus, or a Rus from a Varangian, and the debtor refused to pay, the plaintiff, accompanied by twelve witnesses, . . .
    • 1973, Donald W. Treadgold, The West in Russia and China: Religious and Secular Thought in Modern Times, v 1 (Russia, 1472–1917), ISBN 0521097258, p xxxv:
      The Church of Kievan Rus knew men well-versed in Scripture and apparently other learning of the time, such as the Metropolitans Ioann II (d. 1089) and Klimetn Smoliatich (twelfth century). The former was Greek, and the latter a Rus.

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Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German rōsa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʀuːs/

Noun

Rus f (plural Ruse, diminutive Rüsje or Riesche)

  1. (most dialects) rose

Usage notes

  • The diminutive Rüsje is Ripuarian; the form Riesche is Moselle Franconian.

Czech

Noun

Rus m

  1. Russian (person)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʏs
  • IPA(key): /rʏs/

Noun

Rus m (plural Russen, diminutive Rusje n, feminine Russin)

  1. Russian
  2. (Bargoens) detective

Related terms

  • Rusland n
  • russificeren
  • Russisch n and adjective
  • russofiel m
  • russofoob m
  • Witrus m

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rûs/

Proper noun

Rȕs m (Cyrillic spelling Ру̏с)

  1. Russian (male person)

Declension


Slovak

Noun

Rus m (genitive singular Rusa, nominative plural Rusi, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. Russian (person)

Declension

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References

  • Rus in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrúːs/
  • Tonal orthography: rȗs

Noun

Rús m anim (genitive Rúsa, nominative plural Rúsi, feminine Rúsinja)

  1. Russian (male person)

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Turkish

Noun

Rus

  1. A Russian person (nationality)

rus

rus

See also: Rus, RUS, rus., rus', Rus., Rus', and R Us

Albanian

Adjective

rus m (feminine ruse)

  1. Russian
    gjuha ruse - the Russian language

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Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rus/
  • Rhymes: -us

Adjective

rus m (feminine russa, masculine plural russos, feminine plural russes)

  1. Russian (pertaining to Russia, to the Russian people, or to the Russian language)

Derived terms

  • petit rus (Ukrainian)
  • rus blanc (Belorussian)

Noun

rus m (plural russos, feminine russa)

  1. Russian (an inhabitant of Russia or an ethnic Russian)

Derived terms

  • petit rus (Ukrainian)
  • rus blanc (Belorussian)

Proper noun

rus m

  1. Russian (the Slavic language of the Russians)

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

  • ruaz

Etymology

From Latin radius.

Noun

rus m

  1. ray

Danish

Etymology 1

From an old Danish verb ruse, from Middle Low German rusen (to rush).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ruːs/, [ʁuːˀs]

Noun

rus c (singular definite rusen, not used in plural form)

  1. intoxication
  2. ecstasy

Etymology 2

Maybe an abbreviaton of Latin depositurus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rus/, [ʁus]

Noun

rus c (singular definite russen, plural indefinite russer)

  1. freshman, first-year student
Inflection

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch rusch, rosch. The Juncaceae plants may constitute a parallel etymology

Alternative forms

  • rusch (obsolete)
  • rosch, ruisch, risch, resch (all obsolete)

Noun

rus m (plural russen, diminutive rusje n)

  1. A sod, turf of soil, grass, reed or other vegetation
  2. The graminal plant Armeria vulgaris or Armeria maritima
  3. A grass-like plant, (bul)rush, notably of the genera Juncus and Luzula.
  4. (slang) police detective
Synonyms
  • (sod): plag, zode
  • (Armeria species): pastoorsgras n
  • (plant rush): bies, bloembies, veldbies
Derived terms
  • rusachtig (adj)
  • (rush-related species; presumably all have a modern from ending in -rus instead of -rusch) Alpenrusch, boschrusch, draadrusch, dwergrusch, greppelrusch, koprusch, lidrusch, moerasrusch, paddenrusch, pitrusch, steenrusch, trekrusch, waterrusch, zeerusch
  • ruschdijk
  • ruschkleed n
  • russchepit
  • russchenpol, russenpol.
  • rusruiterskruid, (obsolete) ruschruiterskruid

Etymology 2

Adjective

rus

  1. Alternative form of ruis

French

Noun

rus m

  1. plural of ru

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rowos, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewos (open space, field), from *rewh₁-. Cognate with Old Irish róe (flat field) and Avestan [script needed] (rauuah-, open space). See English room.

Pronunciation

Noun

rūs n (genitive rūris); third declension

  1. countryside; country
  2. a farm
  3. a village

Declension

Third declension neuter, with locative.

Case Singular Plural
nominative rūs rūra
genitive rūris rūrum
dative rūrī rūribus
accusative rūs rūra
ablative rūre rūribus
vocative rūs rūra
locative rūrī rūribus

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References

  • rus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • RUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to make a pleasure-trip into the country: rus excurrere
    • to live in the country: ruri vivere, rusticari
    • to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 531

Lojban

Rafsi

rus

  1. rafsi of grusi.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rus m (definite singular rusen, uncountable)

  1. The mental state inebriation, intoxication, brought on by using alcohol or other drugs

Portuguese

Noun

rus m (plural rus)

  1. (historical) Rus (Scandinavian settlers and merchants in Eastern Europe)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian русь (rus').

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rus/

Adjective

rus m, n (feminine singular rusă, masculine plural ruși, feminine and neuter plural ruse)

  1. Russian

Declension

Noun

rus m (plural ruși, feminine equivalent rusoaică)

  1. Russian

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

rus m (genitive singular ruis, no plural)

  1. The cereal rice