rūs

rūs uit.-lat.

Derived from Proto-Italic *rowos, from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁os (“open space, field”), from *rewh₁- (“to open, wide”). Cognate with Old Irish róe (“flat field”) and Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬵-(rauuah-, “open space”), English room.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ruːs/, [ruːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /rus/, [rus]

Noun

rūs n (genitive rūris); third declension

1. countryside, country, lands, fields [ quotations ▼]
2. farm, estate
3. village

Usage notes

• Rūs is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case, other examples being domus and humus.
• Genitive plural and dative/ablative/locative plural forms are unattested in Classical Latin.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rūs	rūra
Genitive	rūris	rūrum
Dative	rūrī	rūribus
Accusative	rūs	rūra
Ablative	rūre	rūribus
Vocative	rūs	rūra
Locative	rūrī rūre	rūribus