rubí

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rubi, from Old Occitan rubí, from Medieval Latin rubīnus, from Latin rubeus. First attested in the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): /ruˈbi/ [ruˈβ̞i]
• Rhymes: -i

rubí m (plural rubís)

1. ruby

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “rubi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “rubi”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rubí”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rubí”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

rubí m (plural rubís)

1. Prescribed spelling of rubi under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not implemented; now a common misspelling.

rubí (invariable)

1. Prescribed spelling of rubi under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not implemented; now a common misspelling.

15th-century borrowing from Catalan robí, from Old French rubin, from Medieval Latin rubīnus, from Latin rubeus (“red”) + -īnus (diminutive).

• IPA^(key): /ruˈbi/ [ruˈβ̞i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ru‧bí

rubí m (plural rubíes or rubís)

1. ruby (gem)
2. (horology) jewel (of analog watch)

• “rubí”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024