cubital

From cubit +‎ -al.

cubital (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna.
2. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the cubitus and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
3. Measured in cubits.
4. Of the length of a cubit.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     towers of that city being so high, that unto men below they appeared in a cubital stature

cubital (plural cubitals)

1. (entomology) Synonym of cubitus.
   • 1865, The record of zoological literature:

     Second cubital cell irregularly quadrangular, trapezoid, placed in a direct line with the first and third cubitals

• “cubital”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Substantivation of apocopated cubitāle, nominative neuter singular of cubitālis (“pertaining to the elbow”). Alternatively, directly from cubitum +‎ -al.

For the same meaning development (pillow, cushion, derived from a body part), compare: Latin cervīcal (<Latin cervīcālis), coxīnus (whence cushion) (<Latin coxa), Ancient Greek προσκεφάλαιον (proskephálaion) (<κεφαλή (kephalḗ)), Greek μαξιλάρι (maxilári) (<Latin māxillāris), Bulgarian възгла́вница (vǎzglávnica) (<глава́ (glavá)), Slovak vankúš (akin to German Wange).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.bɪ.taɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.bi.t̪al]

cubital n (genitive cubitālis); third declension

1. an elbow cushion for leaning on

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• “cubital”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cubital”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from French cubital.

cubital m or n (feminine singular cubitală, masculine plural cubitali, feminine and neuter plural cubitale)

1. cubital

Borrowed from Latin cubitālis.

• IPA^(key): /kubiˈtal/ [ku.β̞iˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cu‧bi‧tal

cubital m or f (masculine and feminine plural cubitales)

1. cubital

• “cubital”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024