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): [ˈrʊ.bi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.bi.a]

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”)
2. (Spain) station wagon; estate car

   Synonyms: familiar, (Colombia, Venezuela) camioneta, (Mexico) guayín, (Spain) ranchero, (chiefly Argentina) rural, (Chile, Peru, Puerto Rico) station wagon, (Bolivia, Mexico) vagoneta

rubia f

1. feminine singular of rubio

• “rubia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024