robustus

Latin

Etymology

From rōbus (“a kind of hard oak; hardness, strength”) +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /roːˈbus.tus/, [roːˈbʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /roˈbus.tus/, [roˈbust̪us]

Adjective

rōbustus (feminine rōbusta, neuter rōbustum, comparative rōbustior, superlative rōbustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. of oak, oaken
2. (by extension) hard, firm, solid, robust

   Synonyms: dūrus, firmus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rōbustus	rōbusta	rōbustum		rōbustī	rōbustae	rōbusta
genitive	rōbustī	rōbustae	rōbustī		rōbustōrum	rōbustārum	rōbustōrum
dative	rōbustō	rōbustae	rōbustō		rōbustīs
accusative	rōbustum	rōbustam	rōbustum		rōbustōs	rōbustās	rōbusta
ablative	rōbustō	rōbustā	rōbustō		rōbustīs
vocative	rōbuste	rōbusta	rōbustum		rōbustī	rōbustae	rōbusta

Related terms

• rōborārium
• rōborascō
• rōborātus
• rōboreus
• rōborō
• rōbur
• rōburneus
• rōbus
• rōbustē
• rōbusteus

Descendants

• Catalan: robust
• English: robust
• French: robuste
• Galician: robusto
• Italian: robusto
• Romanian: robust
• Portuguese: robusto
• Spanish: robusto

References

• “robustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “robustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• robustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.