robustus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₁réwdʰos
Proto-Italic *rouðos
Italicbor.
Old Latin rōbus
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin rōbustus

    From Old Latin rōbus (“oak tree”) + Latin -tus. Compare typologically Russian здоро́вый (zdoróvyj), akin to де́рево (dérevo).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    rōbustus (feminine rōbusta, neuter rōbustum, comparative rōbustior, superlative rōbustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

    1. of oak, oaken
    2. (by extension) hard, firm, solid, robust
      Synonyms: dūrus, firmus

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative rōbustus rōbusta rōbustum rōbustī rōbustae rōbusta
    genitive rōbustī rōbustae rōbustī rōbustōrum rōbustārum rōbustōrum
    dative rōbustō rōbustae rōbustō rōbustīs
    accusative rōbustum rōbustam rōbustum rōbustōs rōbustās rōbusta
    ablative rōbustō rōbustā rōbustō rōbustīs
    vocative rōbuste rōbusta rōbustum rōbustī rōbustae rōbusta

    Descendants

    • → Catalan: robust
    • → English: robust
    • → French: robuste
    • → Galician: robusto
    • → Italian: robusto
    • → Portuguese: robusto
    • → Spanish: robusto

    References

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