rutilus
On the traditional view an unexplained derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”), whence also rubeō, ruber, rōbus, rōbur, rūfus, russus.[1]
More recently, Prósper cites Schaffner 2016–2017 in seeing it as continuing Proto-Indo-European *h₂ruti-, from *h₂rew- (“to shine”), whence also the gentilic name Rutīlius, the tribal name Rutēnī, Venetic Rutius (patronymic) and Old Irish ruithen (“a gleam, shining”).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈru.ti.lus/, [ˈrʊt̪ɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.ti.lus/, [ˈruːt̪ilus]
Adjective
rutilus (feminine rutila, neuter rutilum); first/second-declension adjective
- of a warm or yellowish red colour, ruddy
- strawberry blonde
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rutilus | rutila | rutilum | rutilī | rutilae | rutila | |
| Genitive | rutilī | rutilae | rutilī | rutilōrum | rutilārum | rutilōrum | |
| Dative | rutilō | rutilō | rutilīs | ||||
| Accusative | rutilum | rutilam | rutilum | rutilōs | rutilās | rutila | |
| Ablative | rutilō | rutilā | rutilō | rutilīs | |||
| Vocative | rutile | rutila | rutilum | rutilī | rutilae | rutila | |