Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word rusticus.
Examples
-
Of the "rusticus" nothing need be said; but the first _n_ in "henno" is expressed by a contraction, which in the MS. _very_ commonly denotes that letter, and sometimes the final _m_.
-
The second of the two texts just cited even gives a curious “ordinary language” argument, appealing to the rusticus (the man-on-the-street), who, if you were to say to him “What I am saying is false,” would reply “Nil dicis” (“You are saying nothing”).
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
-
| Fishermen dump unused bait into the water in which they are fishing, even though their bait did not come from the same water; a significant example of this is the rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus).
Exotic species 2007
-
This is the way, and the only way, of having du monde, but if you have it not, and have still any coarse rusticity about you, may not one apply to you the rusticus expectat of Horace?
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
-
Item si quis denudauit consilia, maximè quando volunt ad bellum procedere, dantur ei super posteriora centum plagæ, quanto maiores vnus rusticus cum magno baculo potest dare.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
-
Item si aliquis eorum deundat consilium, maxim� quando volunt ire ad bellum; centum plag� dantur super posteriora, quanto maiores dare cum baculo magno vnus rusticus potest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
Item si quis denudauit consilia, maxim� quando volunt ad bellum procedere, dantur ei super posteriora centum plag�, quanto maiores vnus rusticus cum magno baculo potest dare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
Greatly daring, she did a dance, not caring when people laughed and called her provincialis, rusticus, and other probably less flattering names.
Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995
-
So that {89} we have to choose between "henno" and "hemno" rusticus (rather a clown than a gentleman, whatever was his name; and perhaps the treatise, if ever found, will prove to treat merely on rural affairs).
-
The words "henno rusticus" (heno rusticus) are found twice, and are tolerably clearly written in both cases.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.