robust

• adj.頑丈な; 健康な; 荒い; 失礼な

ラテン語のrobustus（頑丈な、強い）から、robus（広葉樹、特にオーク）から、ruber（赤い）から、語源的にはruby（ルビー、赤）と同じ。 オークの赤い心、すなわちオークのように強いことから名付けられた。

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.

ネアンデルタール時代の人はとても強くて、私たちとは全然違います。

2.He replied in characteristically robust style.

これまで通り、彼の答えはリズミカルで力強い。

3.She was almost 90,but still very robust .

彼女は90歳近くになったが、体はまだ非常に丈夫だ。

4.That chair 's not very robust ; don 't sit on it.

その椅子はあまり丈夫ではありません。座ってはいけません。

5.I want something sequacious now and robust .

私は今、前後一貫と健全なものがほしい。