rubor

From Latin rubor.

rubor (uncountable)

1. (pathology) redness, one of the main signs of inflammation

• rubor on The Free Dictionary

• Robur, burro

Borrowed from Latin rubōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈβor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ruˈbo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ruˈboɾ]

rubor m or f (plural rubors)

1. blush, blushing
2. redness (inflammation)

• ruboritzar
• ruborós

• “rubor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From rubeō (“I am red, reddish”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʊ.bɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.bor]

rubor m (genitive rubōris); third declension

1. redness
2. (by extension) blush
3. (figuratively) modesty
4. (figuratively) shame, disgrace

   Dixit duas res ei rubori fuisse.

   He said that two things had abashed him.

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: rubor
• Old French: rovur, roveur
• → Portuguese: rubor, arrebol (via arrebolar)
• → Spanish: rubor, arrebol (via arrebolar)

• “rubor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rubor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rubor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin rubor (“redness”).

• Hyphenation: ru‧bor

rubor m (plural rubores)

1. blush
   • 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:

     Não tinha sequer olhos para notar uma palidez, para observar um rubor da circulação periférica, […]

     He did not even have eyes to notice a paleness, to observe a blush in the peripheral circulation, […]

• rubro
• arrebol

Borrowed from Latin rubor (“redness”).

• IPA^(key): /ruˈboɾ/ [ruˈβ̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ru‧bor

rubor m (plural rubores)

1. blushing, blush
2. (by extension) embarrassment, shame

   Synonym: vergüenza

   • 2020 February 14, “Sin dinero para motel o condones: la crisis restringe sexualidad de jóvenes venezolanos”, in Newsweek‎^[1]:

     Cuando está de cacería en Tinder, la popular aplicación de citas, Jhoanna^[sic] pregunta sin rubor a sus potenciales amantes por su “capacidad” económica.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “rubor”, 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