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Rufo

Rufo is a Latin form of Rufus, meaning “Rufus, a Roman family name ("red-haired")”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or dative singular masculine noun or ablative singular neuter adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.13: … civitatis virorum disputatio repetenda memoria est, quae mihi tibique quondam adulescentulo est a P. Rutilio Rufo, Smyrnae cum simul essemus compluris dies, exposita, in qua nihil fere, quod magno opere ad rationes omnium r …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26.11: Fulvus autem videtur de rufo atque viridi mixtus in aliis plus viridis, in aliis plus rufi habere. Sic poeta verborum diligentissimus fulu …

All forms of Rufus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.