rubo

Borrowed from English rubbish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrubo/
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: ru‧bo

rubo (accusative singular rubon, plural ruboj, accusative plural rubojn)

1. rubble, debris, detritus
2. rubbish, trash, waste

• (rubble): ŝtonetaro
• (trash): forĵetaĵo

• rubujo

• IPA^(key): /ˈrubo/ [ˈru.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: ru‧bo

From Latin rubus, from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”).

rubo m (plural rubos)

1. blackberry (bush), bramble

• “rubo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “rubo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rubir

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.bo/
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: rù‧bo

rubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rubare

rubō

1. dative/ablative singular of rubus

Borrowed from Latin rubus, from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrubo/ [ˈru.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: ru‧bo

rubo m (plural rubos)

1. (obsolete) blackberry bush

   Synonym: zarza

2. (obsolete) bramble (thorny shrub)

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “rubeta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 80

• “rubo”, 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