rubine
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin rubīnus (“carbuncle, ruby”).[1] Doublet of ruby.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rubine (countable and uncountable, plural rubines)
- A reddish aniline dye.
- (archaic or poetic) A ruby.
- Alternative form: rubin
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Some [wines] deepe empurpled as the hyacine ,
Some as the rubine
Adjective
[edit]rubine (comparative more rubine, superlative most rubine)
References
[edit]- ^ “rubine, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]rubīne m
Anagrams
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