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Roubaix
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English
Pronunciation
en /ɹuˈbeɪ/
US city en /ɹoʊˈbeɪ/
Proper noun
+, Hauts-de-France
+, South Dakota
en city r/Hauts-de-France c/France.
en unincorporated community co/Lawrence County s/South Dakota c/USA.
1970, Lewis H. Shapiro and John Paul Cries, Ore Deposits in Rocks of Paleozoic and Tertiary Age of the Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey Numbered Series 70-300, page 27
The basal conglomerate of the Deadwood formation occurs as numerous lenticular beds irregularly distributed along a belt about two miles wide extending from the vicinity of Roubaix to Blacktail Gulch.
Translations
city in Hauts-de-France
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 魯貝 Lǔbèi
Dutch: nl Robaais, nl Roubaix
French: fr Roubaix
Greek: el Ρουμπαί
Japanese: ja ルーベ Rūbe
Latin: la Rosbacum m
Marathi: mr रुबे
Picard: pcd Roubés
Russian: ru Рубе́ m
Walloon: wa Roubés
West Flemish: vls Roboais
French
Etymology
Probably of fr frk - origin, from frk *rausa reed + frk *baki brook, from fr gem-pro *rauzą + gem-pro *bakiz. For the first element see fr roseau reed.
Pronunciation
fr French
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jules78120-Roubaix.wav
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Roubaix.wav France
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Roubaix.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>)
Proper noun
fr city dept/Nord c/France
1989, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Collected works: Marx and Engels, 1874-83, 0717805247, page 394Volume 24 of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. New York, International PublishersExtract from article “Two Model Town Councils” written by en Friedrich Engels Frederick Engels, originally published in The Labour Standard No. 8 on June 25, 1881
fr Shortly before the establishment of the Labour Standard, there was a strike of factory operatives in the town of Roubaix, close on the Belgian frontier.
Patronymic name affixed with “de”, given after the city's name: Roubaix
1929, Norman Giles, Keerboskloof: A Novel, OCLC 9736252, page 9
fr Groenvlei was a fine old plaas, with curling gables and brown thatched roof. The de Roubaix family had occupied it for many scores years.
Derived terms
fr Roubaisian
Related terms
fr Roubaignos
fr roubaisien
fr Roubaisien
References
Guinet, Louis (1982). Les emprunts gallo-romans au germanique (du Ier à la fin du Ve siècle) [The Gallo-Romance borrowings from Germanic (from the 1st century to the end of the 5th century)]. Bibliothèque française et romane. Série A, Manuels et études linguistiques ; 44 (in French). Paris, F: Klincksieck. pp. 32–33