# rufo
## Galician
### Etymology

Unknown.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrufo/ [ˈru.fʊ]
* Rhymes: -ufo
* Hyphenation: ru‧fo

### Adjective

rufo (feminine rufa, masculine plural rufos, feminine plural rufas)
* sound, healthy; lush
    Synonym: louzán
** 1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:Si eu fora alá, meus queridos, por esta Cruz volo xuro, con mil cabezas francesas, había de vir, moi rufo; Esto con ser xa tan vello; mais vós, con catro estornudos, non deixarés un Gabacho, si poñedes ben os puntos; Ide á guerra, meus garridos, Dios vos axude, meus rulos, e aquel Patrón das Españas, que ten o pelo moi rubioIf I go there, my loved ones, I swear by this cross that I will return with a thousand French heads, sound and healthy. And this being myself as old as I am. But you, with just four sneezes, won't leave a Frenchy left, if you put the points correctly. Go to war, my fine youngsters, God help you, my darlings, and that patron of the Spains who is so blonde!

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rufo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “rufo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rufo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin rūfus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈru.fo/
* Rhymes: -ufo
* Hyphenation: rù‧fo

### Adjective

rufo (feminine rufa, masculine plural rufi, feminine plural rufe)
* reddish

### Anagrams

* fuor, furo

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈruː.foː/, [ˈruːfoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈru.fo/, [ˈruːfo]

### Adjective

rūfō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of rūfus

### References

* “rufo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* rufo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “rufo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁu.fu/ [ˈhu.fu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁu.fu/ [ˈhu.fu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁu.fu/ [ˈχu.fu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁu.fo/ [ˈhu.fo]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁu.fu/
* Hyphenation: ru‧fo

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

rufo m (plural rufos)
* (percussion) roll (the fast, light, uniform beating of a drum)

### Etymology 2

From English ruff.

#### Noun

rufo m (plural rufos)
* ruff (neck garment)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

rufo
* first-person singular present indicative of rufar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrufo/ [ˈru.fo]
* Rhymes: -ufo
* Syllabification: ru‧fo

### Adjective

rufo (feminine rufa, masculine plural rufos, feminine plural rufas)
* rufous

### Further reading

* “rufo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10