rubia

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.bi.a/, [ˈrʊbiä]
• (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.

• (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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014