rudis

rudis

1. plural of rude

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.dis/, [ˈrʊd̪ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.dis/, [ˈruːd̪is]

From Proto-Indo-European *Hrew- (“to tear up, dig up”). Related to rudus.

rudis (neuter rude); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. rough, raw, uncultivated
2. unrefined, unskilled, awkward

   Synonyms: ineptus, iners, indocilis, incapāx

   Antonyms: vafer, callidus

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• rudīmentum
• ruditās
• ērudiō

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rudis f (genitive rudis); third declension

1. small stick
2. foil (given to a gladiator upon his discharge)

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

• rudicula

• “rudis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rudis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rudis 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)
• rudis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or [rerum] rudem esse)
    
  • to be an inexperienced speaker: rudem, tironem ac rudem (opp. exercitatum) esse in dicendo
    
  • to have had no experience in war: rei militaris rudem esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to retire from service: rude donatum esse (Phil. 2. 29)
    
• “rudis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rudis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin