Adjective: rubecchio
Hyphenation: ru‧béc‧chio
| Singular m. | rubecchio |
| Singular f. | rubecchia |
| Plural m. | rubecchi |
| Plural f. | rubecchie |
Sample Sentences
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Ond’ elli a me: «Se Castore e Polluce
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fossero in compagnia di quello specchio
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che sù e giù del suo lume conduce,
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tu vedresti il Zodïaco rubecchio
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ancora a l’Orse più stretto rotare,
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se non uscisse fuor del cammin vecchio. (Whereon he said to me: "If Castor and Pollux
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were in the company of that mirror,
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that up and down conducts with its light,
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you would behold the rubescent Zodiac
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revolving still closer to the Bears,
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unless it swerved aside from its old track.) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 61–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Adjectives inflected like rubecchio
celibatario,
fiduciario,
gregario,
rogatorio,
sobrio,
compensatorio,
quiritario,
provvisorio,
straordinario,
socialitario,
obbligazionario,
urinario,
derisorio,
sorgentizio,
iperuranio,
sanzionatorio,
fusorio,
economicofinanziario,
fungaio,
torrentizio, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From Vulgar Latin *rubiculus, derived from Latin rubeus (“red”).
2. A more normal outcome would have been *ruvecchio. The reason for there still being a /b/ is not clear, but influence from related words like robbio or rubino may have played a role. See: Latin Adjectives '
rubeus'.
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