different between rubus vs dewberry

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

rubus (plural rubuses)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?d?o- (“sweetbriar”) (compare dialectal Norwegian erre, orr (“bush”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”), Persian ??? (gol, “flower”), Old English word (“thornbush”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ru.bus/, [?r?b?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ru.bus/, [?ru?bus]

Noun

rubus m (genitive rub?); second declension

1. bramble, blackberry bush

   Apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et non conbureretur (Exodus 3:2, Vulgate)

2. a blackberry (fruit), raspberry (fruit)

Declension

Sometimes treated as a feminine noun, but stillSecond-declension noun.

Related terms

• ruber

Descendants

• Aromanian: arug, rug
• Italian: rovo, rogo
• Romanian: rug
• Spanish: rubo
• Translingual: Rubus

References

• rubus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rubus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rubus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• rubus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

rubus

1. Alternative form of robous

English

Etymology

dew +? berry

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dju?.b(?)?i/, /?d??u?.b(?)?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?du?b??i/

Noun

dewberry (plural dewberries)

1. Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
   1. The European dewberry, Rubus caesius.
   2. The American dewberries, species of Rubus sect. Flagellares
2. The purple to black berries of these plants.

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