rubus

From the genus name, from Latin rubus.

rubus (plural rubuses)

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

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.

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

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)

Sometimes treated as a feminine noun, but still

Second-declension noun.

• rubētum

• Aromanian: arug, rug
• → English: rubus
• Interlingua: rubo
• Italian: rovo
• Romanian: rug
• Spanish: rubo
• Translingual: rubus

• “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.

rubus

1. Alternative form of robous