different between ruby vs scarlet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??u?bi]
• Rhymes: -u?bi

Etymology 1

From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

Noun

ruby (countable and uncountable, plural rubies)

1. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
2. (obsolete) A red spinel.
3. A deep red colour.

4. (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
5. (uncountable, printing, Britain, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

   Synonym: (US) agate

6. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
7. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)

1. Of a deep red colour.

Translations

Verb

ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)

1. (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.

   • With sanguine drops the walls are rubied

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• carbuncle
• corundum
• spinel
• Ruby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Ruby”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “ruby”, in Mindat.org?^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Etymology 2

From the British 5.5-point font Ruby, used for annotations in printed documents.

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

2. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

   Synonym: rubi

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rub?]

Noun

ruby

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of rub

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rubi, itself borrowed from Latin rubeus.

Alternative forms

• rebe, ribe, rube, rubee, rubie, rybe, ryby

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?riu?bi?/, /?riu?be?/

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

1. A ruby (red precious stone)
2. (figuratively) A precious individual.

Descendants

• English: ruby

References

• “rub?(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

ruby

1. Alternative form of robben

Silesian

Alternative forms

• hruby

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *grub?.

Adjective

ruby

1. fat, thick

English

Etymology

From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”). This was long thought to derive from Persian ??????? (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic ?????????? (siqill?t), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqill?t to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of Al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively. The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l?t
• Hyphenation: scar?let

Noun

scarlet (plural scarlets)

1. A brilliant red colour tinged with orange.

2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

   • All her household are clothed with scarlet.

Synonyms

• scarlet red

Translations

Adjective

scarlet (comparative more scarlet, superlative most scarlet)

1. Of a bright red colour.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Sinful or whorish.

3. (Ireland) Tragic or disappointing.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Verb

scarlet (third-person singular simple present scarlets, present participle scarleting, simple past and past participle scarleted)

1. To dye or tinge with scarlet.
   • 1632, John Ford, Love's Sacrifice

     The ashy paleness of my cheek / Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.

References

Anagrams

• Clarets, arclets, cartels, castler, castrel, clarets, crestal, lacerts, rectals