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by Mlller 960 days ago
“robigo”, genitive “robiginis”, feminine.
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Ah, I guess that makes sense. “rust” comes from the PIE word for red via German, and “ruby” comes from the same PIE word for red via Latin. So it makes sense that the Latin word for “rust” would be similar to the Latin word for “red” :)