rubio

Galician

Galician vaca rubia

Alternative forms

• roibo, rubeo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• vaca rubia

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• Rubio

See also

• louro

References

• 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 (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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrubjo/ [ˈru.β̞jo]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ubjo
• Syllabification: ru‧bio

Adjective

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

1. blond

   Synonym: blondo (literary)

Derived terms

• brownie rubia

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: rubyo

Noun

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

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

   Synonym: trilla

See also

• chele
• güero

 

Further reading

• “rubio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28