rubric

Meanings

Noun

• A heading in a book highlighted in red.
• A title of a category or a class.
• The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
• An established rule or custom; a guideline.
• A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
• A flourish after a signature.
• Red ochre.

Adjective

• Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
• Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.

Verb

• To adorn with red; to redden.
• To organise or classify into rubrics

Origin

• From Middle English rubrich, rubrik, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rubrīca ("red ochre"), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.