rubine

English

Etymology

From Latin rubeus (“red”).

Noun

rubine (countable and uncountable, plural rubines)

A reddish aniline dye.
(obsolete) A ruby.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Some [wines] deepe empurpled as the hyacine ,
  Some as the rubine

Anagrams

Brunei, Burien, Burnie, brunie, burnie

Latin

Noun

rubīne m

vocative singular of rubīnus

Anagrams

Breuni

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