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+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=inherited|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrʊ.bʊs]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rubus''' ''m'' (genitive rubī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Prudentius uses it as a feminine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is disputed.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The OLD and Lewis & Short think it probably related to [[m|la|ruber|t=red]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*h1rudh-ró-|t=red]].^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary takes it from [[itc-pro|*wruðos]] and [[ine-pro|*wr̥dʰo-|t=sweetbriar]], comparing [[ang|word|t=thornbush]] and [[sq|hurdhe|t=ivy]].^(Wiktionary) Köbler refers it to Pokorny's root [[m|ine-pro|*reub-|t=to tear]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Propertius,^(Köbler 2010) but Lewis & Short already cite Caesar's ''Gallic War'', of hedges thickened with brambles, and Virgil's ''Eclogues''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the bramble, the prickly blackberry bush,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) named by Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Pliny the Elder and Columella.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also the fruit of the bramble, the blackberry: Propertius has baskets full of crimson blackberries, and Calpurnius gathering strawberries and blackberries.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary adds the raspberry.^(Wiktionary) In Church Latin it is a bush or bramble,^(Stelten 1995) and Niermeyer gives it as medieval Latin for brushwood.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of hedges with brambles.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, in the ''Eclogues''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius, of blackberries.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – Brushwood.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|bramble]], blackberry bush.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|blackberry]]; a raspberry.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Brushwood, a bush.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rubēta]]

+ * [[rubētum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ruber]]

+ * [[rubeō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Niermeyer has a separate medieval ''rubus'' (also ''rubbus'', ''rubeus''), a dry measure for grain.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}