rubigo

English

Etymology

Latin rubigo

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) […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rubigo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

rūbīgō f (genitive rūbīginis); third declension

  1. Alternative form of rōbīgō

Inflection

Third declension.

Case 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
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