rubus

See also: Rubus

English

Etymology

From the genus name, from Latin rubus.

Noun

rubus (plural rubuses)

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”) (compare dialectal Norwegian erre, orr (“bush”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”), Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower, rose”), Old English word (“thornbush”)). See rose.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈrʊbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈruːbus]

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)

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rubus	rubī
Genitive	rubī	rubōrum
Dative	rubō	rubīs
Accusative	rubum	rubōs
Ablative	rubō	rubīs
Vocative	rube	rubī

Derived terms

• rubētum

Descendants

• Aromanian: arug, rug
• → English: rubus
• Interlingua: rubo
• Italian: rovo
• Romanian: rug
• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rubus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

rubus

1. Alternative form of robous