rubigo

English

Etymology

From Latin rūbīgō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹuːˈbaɪɡəʊ/

Noun

rubigo (uncountable)

  1. (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) []

References

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

rūbīgō f (genitive rūbīginis); third declension (proscribed)

  1. alternative form of rōbīgō (rust)
    • [3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 187:
      robigo non rubigo
      (The correct form is) robigo, not rubigo]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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.