rubro

From Latin ruber, from Proto-Italic *ruðros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰrós (“red”), from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.bro/
• Rhymes: -ubro
• Hyphenation: rù‧bro

rubro (feminine rubra, masculine plural rubri, feminine plural rubre) (rare)

1. (archaic) red

   Synonyms: rosso, rufo

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso [The Divine Comedy: Paradise] (paperback), Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto VI, page 105, lines 79–81:

     Con costui corse infino al lito rubro; ¶ con costui puose il mondo in tanta pace, ¶ che fu serrato a Giano il suo delubro.

     With him it ran even to the Red Sea shore; ¶ with him it placed the world in so great peace, ¶ that unto Janus was his temple closed.

• rubrene

• burro

rubrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ruber

From Latin ruber.

rubro m (uncountable)

1. (poetic) red (colour)

   Synonym: vermelho

rubro (feminine rubra, masculine plural rubros, feminine plural rubras)

1. (poetic) red in colour

   Synonym: vermelho

• rubéola

• “rubro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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• IPA^(key): /ˈrubɾo/ [ˈru.β̞ɾo]
• Rhymes: -ubɾo
• Syllabification: ru‧bro

rubro m (plural rubros)

1. red
2. title, heading

• “rubro”, 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
• “rubro”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010