n Pertaining to blue shade red, probably derived from the Latin word “rubia” for the madder plant from which madder lake (Alizarin Red), a blue shade red, was originally made. The name of the bluish red colored gem, the ruby, would appear to be similarly derived.
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Rubine. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_10207
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