Rufus

From Latin rūfus (“red”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːfəs/
• Homophone: rufous
• Rhymes: -uːfəs

Rufus

1. Either of two persons mentioned in the New Testament (in Mark 15:21 and Romans 16:13).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
     : Romans 16:13:

     Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

2. A male given name from Latin, used since the seventeenth century.
3. A minor city in Sherman County, Oregon, United States.

From rūfus (“red, ruddy”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.fʊs]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.fus]

Rūfus m (genitive Rūfī); second declension

1. A masculine cognomen.

Second-declension noun.

• “Rufus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Rufus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Rufus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Rufus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray