rubio

• roibo, rubeo

From Latin rubeus. Cognate with Portuguese ruivo and Spanish rubio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrubjo/ [ˈru.β̞jʊ]
• Rhymes: -ubjo
• Hyphenation: ru‧bio

rubio (feminine rubia, masculine plural rubios, feminine plural rubias)

1. red
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 185:

     el RRey Faraõ, o que morreu ẽno mar RRubio quando ya pos los judeus

     the Pharaoh king, the one who died at the Red Sea when chasing the Jews

2. reddish, ginger
3. dark blond
4. blushed

• vaca rubia

rubio m (plural rubios, feminine rubia, feminine plural rubias)

1. blond or red person
2. gurnard (fish)

• Rubio

• louro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ruvio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “rubio" in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rubio”, 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), “rubio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rubio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin rubeus. Doublet of roya or royo, as well as the borrowing rúbeo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrubjo/ [ˈru.β̞jo]

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• Rhymes: -ubjo
• Syllabification: ru‧bio

rubio (feminine rubia, masculine plural rubios, feminine plural rubias)

1. blond

   Synonym: blondo (literary)

• → Tagalog: rubyo

rubio m (plural rubios, feminine rubia, feminine plural rubias)

1. a blond (or blonde) person
2. gurnard (fish)

   Synonym: trilla

• “rubio”, 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