rubia

rubia

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of rubir

Short for Latin rubia herba. rubia is derived from ruber (“red”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈru.bi.a/, [ˈrʊbiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.bi.a/, [ˈruːbiä]

rubia f (genitive rubiae); first declension

1. A red dye, madder.
   • c. 77-79 AD, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.17

     in primis rubia, tinguendis lanis et coriis necessaria

     The first of these is madder, the employment of which is necessary in dyeing wool and leather.

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rubia	rubiae
Genitive	rubiae	rubiārum
Dative	rubiae	rubiīs
Accusative	rubiam	rubiās
Ablative	rubiā	rubiīs
Vocative	rubia	rubiae

• (madder): alysson

• Italian: robbia
• Portuguese: ruiva
• Romanian: roibă
• Spanish: rubia
• Translingual: Rubia

• “rubia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rubia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrubja/ [ˈru.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -ubja
• Syllabification: ru‧bia

rubia f (plural rubias)

1. female equivalent of rubio (“blonde”)

rubia f

1. feminine singular of rubio

• “rubia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16