cubiculum
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kjuːˈbɪkjʊləm/
Noun
cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)
- A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
- A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From cubō (lie down) + -culum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʊˈbɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kuˈbiː.ku.lum]
Noun
cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | cubiculum | cubicula |
genitive | cubiculī | cubiculōrum |
dative | cubiculō | cubiculīs |
accusative | cubiculum | cubicula |
ablative | cubiculō | cubiculīs |
vocative | cubiculum | cubicula |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: coviglio, → cubicolo
- Spanish: cobijo, → cubículo
- → Catalan: cubicle, cubiculum
- → English: cubicle
- → Galician: acubillo
- → Portuguese: cubículo
- → Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Welsh: kuðugyl
- Welsh: cuddygl, cufygl
- Middle Welsh: kuðugyl
- → Romanian: cubiculum
References
- “cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "cubiculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cubiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cubiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cubiculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum.
Noun
cubiculum n (plural cubiculumuri)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | cubiculum | cubiculumul | cubiculumuri | cubiculumurile | |
genitive-dative | cubiculum | cubiculumului | cubiculumuri | cubiculumurilor | |
vocative | cubiculumule | cubiculumurilor |