rudis

rudis

1. plural of rude

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʊ.dɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.dis]

From Proto-Indo-European *Hrew- (“to tear up, dig up”). Related to rudus.

rudis (neuter rude); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. rough, raw, uncultivated
   • End of the 1st Century BC, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars amatoria:

     simplicitas rudis ante fuit; nunc aurea Roma est.

     There once was raw simplicity, now Rome is golden.

2. unrefined, unskilled, awkward

   Synonyms: ineptus, iners, indocilis, incapāx

   Antonyms: vafer, callidus

3. rude

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• rudīmentum
• ruditās
• ērudiō

Borrowings:

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rudis f (genitive rudis); third declension

1. small stick
2. (gladiatorial combat) foil (given to a gladiator upon his discharge)

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

• rudiārius
• rudicula

• “rudis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rudis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rudis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rudis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or [rerum] rudem esse)
    
  • to be an inexperienced speaker: rudem, tironem ac rudem (opp. exercitatum) esse in dicendo
    
  • to have had no experience in war: rei militaris rudem esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to retire from service: rude donatum esse (Phil. 2. 29)
    
• “rudis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rudis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

By surface analysis, rùdas (“brown”) +‎ -is (“nominalizing ending masculine”)

rùdis m (plural rùdžiai, feminine rùdė) stress pattern 2

1. (ethnic slur, offensive) brownie, a person with brown skin.

   Per televiziją parodė vieną rudį, kuris prisistatė pačiu radža ir pusėtinai neblogai padainavo dainą.

   One brownie was shown on TV, who introduced him Raja himself and sang a song at medium not badly.