Rufus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin rūfus (“red”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɹuːfəs/ Homophone: rufous Rhymes: -uːfəs === Proper noun === Rufus Either of two persons mentioned in the New Testament (in Mark 15:21 and Romans 16:13). : Romans 16:13: Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. A male given name from Latin, used since the seventeenth century. A minor city in Sherman County, Oregon, United States. A locality in the Wentworth council area, south western New South Wales, Australia. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From rūfus (“red, ruddy”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈruː.fʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈruː.fus] === Proper noun === Rūfus m (genitive Rūfī); second declension A masculine cognomen. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “Rufus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Rufus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Rufus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Rufus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray