robust

英[r?(?)'b?st] 美[ro'b?st]

反義詞delicate

比較級:?more robust;最高級:?most robust;副詞:?robustly;名詞:?robustness;

1. 樂百氏(Robust): 廣東樂百氏集團是聞名全國的大型食品飲料企業，是法國達能集團旗下企業，中國飲料工業十強企業之一。
2. red => Latin ruber "red" => robust.

robust 強健的，健壯的

來自拉丁語 robustus,強健的，強壯的，來自 robus,硬木材，特指橡木，來自 ruber,紅色的，詞源同 ruby,red.因橡木紅色的樹心而得名，即像橡木一樣結實的。

robust: robust: [16] By a series of semantic twists, robust is related to red. It comes ultimately from Indo- European *reudh- ‘red’ (source of English red). This produced Latin rōbus, which was applied to a particular sort of oak tree with reddish wood. The oak being synonymous with strength, rōbus in due course came to mean ‘strength’. This was carried over into the derived rōbustus ‘firm, strong, solid’, from which English gets robust, and also into the verb rōborāre ‘strengthen’, source of English corroborate [16].
=> corroborate, red
robust (adj.): 1540s, from Middle French robuste (14c.) and directly from Latin robustus "strong and hardy," literally "as strong as oak," originally "oaken," from robur, robus "hard timber, strength," also "a special kind of oak," named for its reddish heartwood, from Latin ruber "red" (related to robigo "rust"), from PIE *reudh- (see red (adj.1)). Related: Robustly; robustness. Robustious (1540s) was a common form in 17c. (see "Hamlet" iii.2); it fell from use by mid-18c., but was somewhat revived by mid-19c. antiquarian writers.

1. The Neanderthals were very robust and quite different from us.: 尼安德特時期的人非常強壯，和我們迥然不同。