rubicundus

rubeo +‎ -cundus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ru.biˈkun.dus/, [rʊbɪˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ru.biˈkun.dus/, [rubiˈkun̪d̪us]

rubicundus (feminine rubicunda, neuter rubicundum, comparative rubicundior); first/second-declension adjective

1. red, ruddy, rubicund
   • early 11th century, Egbert van Luik, "De puella a lupellis servata", Fecunda ratis, Ernst Voigt (ed.), publ. by Max Niemeyer, 1889, page 233, lines 474-476.

     Quidam suscepit sacro de fonte puellam,
     Cui dedit et tunicam rubicundo uellere textam.
     Quinquagesima sancta fuit babtismatis huius,

     Somebody raised the girl from the baptismal font,
     and gave to her a riding hood woven from red wool.
     [For] Holy Pentecost was the day of her baptism.

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Catalan: rubicund
• → French: rubicond
• → Spanish: rubicundo

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