rubigo
English
Noun
rubigo (uncountable)
- (phytopathology, obsolete) rust (fungal disease of plants)
- 1804, Annals of agriculture and other useful arts:
- Dr. Darwin supposes that the rubigo which shows itself in a ferruginous powder beneath the leaves of vegetables previously diseased, may be a fungus (like the eurisiphe or mildew) […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rubigo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Noun
rūbīgō f (genitive rūbīginis); third declension (Vulgar Latin)
- Alternative form of rōbīgō
- 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi:
- robigo non rubigo
- [Say or write] robigo, not rubigo.
- robigo non rubigo
- 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi:
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rūbīgō | rūbīginēs |
| Genitive | rūbīginis | rūbīginum |
| Dative | rūbīginī | rūbīginibus |
| Accusative | rūbīginem | rūbīginēs |
| Ablative | rūbīgine | rūbīginibus |
| Vocative | rūbīgō | rūbīginēs |
References
- “rubigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rubigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rubigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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