Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1671.rūs, rūris on page 1671
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rūs the country
rūs is a Latin Noun that primarily means the country.
Definitions for rūs
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
the country, countryside
English derivatives:
rustic rusticity rural
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
(esp. pl.) The country (opp. the town; often w. implication of its more cultivated parts). (b) (w. adjs. from proper names, etc., applied to particular tracts of country).
- 2
Land, or a piece of land, owned in the country, country estate.
- 3
(special uses of the cases, embracing both prec. senses): (a) rus (acc.), Into the country, to one's estate. (b) ruri, in the country, on one's estate; sim. rure. (c) rure, from the country, from one's estate.
Sentences with rūs
Latin to English
Mantua mē genuit, Calabrī rapuēre, tenet nunc Pathenopē: cecinī pascua, rūra, ducēs. (inscription on the tomb of Vergil).Compare Mantua gave me life, Calabria took it away, now Naples holds me: I sang of pastures, fields, and heroes.
Donasti, Lupe, rus sub urbe nobis; sed rus est mihi maius in fenestra.Compare You gave given me, Lupus, a suburban farm, but I have a bigger farm in my window.
Titus filius ab homo relego, et rus habito iubeo.Compare He banished his son Titus from mankind, and commanded him to live in the country.
Moriens rus is ipse locus sepelio sui iubeo fero, ne funus sui in ingratus patria fio.Compare They say that he, dying in the country, gave orders that he shuld be buried in that every spot, that his funeral might not be celebrated in his ungrateful country.
Romae rus optas; absentem rusticus urbem tollis ad astra levis.Compare At Rome you are all for the country: in the country you extol to the stars the distant town.
Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, flumina amem silvasque inglorius.Compare Then let the country charm me, the rivers that channel its valleys, then may I love its forest and stream, and let fame go hang.
Declension table for rūs
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | rūs | rūra |
| Gen. | rūris | rūrum |
| Dat. | rūrī | rūribus |
| Acc. | rūs | rūra |
| Abl. | rūre | rūribus |
| Loc. | rūrī | rūribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 263.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1671.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "rūs, rūris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/rus-ruris.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 263.rūs, rūris on page 263
