rubesco Latin · revision 34719

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la rubeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rʊˈbeːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ruˈbɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rubēscō''' (present infinitive rubēscere, perfect active rubuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rubeō|-scō|t1=to be red]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) an inchoative verb.^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists [[m|la|rubeō]] with [[m|la|ruber|t=red]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*ruþro-|t=red]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rudʰ-ró-|t=red]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Virgil:^(Lewis & Short 1879) in the ''Aeneid'' the dawn is reddening, the sea reddens with the sun's rays, and the fields of Neptune redden with fresh slaughter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it poetic and found in post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of the morning and of rocks reddened with blood, and Pliny the Elder of roses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) The OLD notes the present participle used as an adjective, “reddish”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Seneca uses it of blushing: nothing was gentler than Pompey's face, which always blushed before company.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Jerome writes of cheeks that redden charmingly.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the dawn and the sea.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of the morning and of blood-stained rocks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of blushing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome uses it of reddening cheeks.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become [[m|en|red]], [[m|en|redden]]; present participle, reddish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of people, to [[m|en|blush]] with shame or embarrassment.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rubeō]]

+ * [[ruber]]

+ * [[ērubēscō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'' 7.78, where older editions read ''rubuere'', the text now has ''erubuere'' from [[ērubēscō]].^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}