rubeo Latin · revision 31579

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₁rewdʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrʊ.be.oː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rubeō''' (present infinitive rubēre, perfect active rubuī); second conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect ''rubuī'' belongs to ''rubēscō'' as well.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*ruðēō]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₁rudʰéh₁ti]], from [[ine-pro|*h₁rewdʰ-|t=red]];^(Wiktionary) the OLD analyses it as the root of [[ruber|t=red]] with the stative suffix [[m|la|-eō]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan derives ⟨ruber⟩ from [[itc-pro|*ruþro-]] 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==

+ Lewis and Short's earliest examples are from Lucretius: the whole body red with ulcers as if burnt in, and the morning light of the sun reddening across the grass.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to be red or ruddy, of eyes red from weeping in Catullus, wool red with Tyrian purple and shore and waves red with blood in Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of people it is to blush, from shame, modesty or joy: Cicero writes to Atticus “I blush, believe me”, and in the Verrines describes a man who stammered, wavered and blushed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its participle ''rubēns'' became an adjective “red, reddish”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin has it for blush, redden, be ruddy.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a body red with ulcers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of eyes red from weeping.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of blushing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–AD 18 – Ovid of a shore red with blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|red]] or [[m|en|ruddy]]; to be red with blood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of people, to [[m|en|blush]], from shame, modesty or joy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rubēdō]]

+ * [[rubefaciō]]

+ * [[rubicundus]]

+ * [[rūbidus]]

+ * [[rubor]]

+ * [[subrubeō]]

+ * [[rubēscō]]

+ * [[rubēns]]

+ * [[rubeus]]

+ * [[rubicundulus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rubellus]]

+ * [[ruber]]

+ * [[rūbrīca]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}