Rutuba

Probably from rutuba (“confusion, turmoil”), referred to the agitated water.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʊ.tʊ.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.t̪u.ba]

Rutuba m sg (genitive Rutubae); first declension

1. a river in Liguria, now Roia

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Italian: Roia

• “Rutuba”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Rutuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Rutuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press