rubor Latin · revision 31483

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *h₁rudʰ-ró-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrʊ.bɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈruː.bor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rubor''' ''m'' (genitive rubōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rubeō|-or]], from the verb “to be red”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[ruber|t=red]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*ruþro-|t=red]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rudʰ-ró-|t=red]], cognate with [[xum|rufru|t=red]], [[sa|रुधिर|tr=rudhirá|t=red, bloody]] and [[grc|ἐρυθρός|tr=eruthrós|t=red]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Accius,^(de Vaan 2008) who has eyes gleaming with a flaming redness.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is redness of every shade, as Cicero's red mixed with white, and of the complexion, sometimes as a sign of health, as Ovid's fair skin suffused with rosy red.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also the redness of inflammation or fever, as in Ovid's plague, and of a face red with anger in Gellius.^(OLD 2012) Specifically it is a blush from shame or modesty, as Cicero's “so that a blush follows shame”, then the feeling of shame itself, as Livy's consul who came through the crowd of women not without some shame, and the capacity to blush, modesty.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) By metonymy it is what causes shame, disgrace, as Cicero's censor whose verdict brings nothing but disgrace.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “shame”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of eyes gleaming red.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a blush following shame and of disgrace.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a feeling of shame.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a rosy complexion and of fever.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|redness|alt=Redness]]; a red complexion; the redness of inflammation or anger.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|blush]] of shame or modesty.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A feeling of shame; modesty.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # That which causes shame, [[m|en|disgrace]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rubēdō]]

+ * [[rubefaciō]]

+ * [[rubellus]]

+ * [[rubēns]]

+ * [[rubeō]]

+ * [[ruber]]

+ * [[rubēscō]]

+ * [[rubicundus]]

+ * [[pudor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}