cubitus

Learned borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of cubit.

cubitus (plural cubiti)

1. (archaic) The ulna.
2. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the media and the postcubitus; the vein running along the dorsal edge of the discal cell.
3. (anatomy) The elbow, or the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
4. (anatomy) The forearm; the arm from the elbow to fingertip, or the corresponding portion of a jointed limb of an animal that uses the limb for locomotion or grasping.

• (vein of insect wing): Cu

• articulatio cubiti
• cubital

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of coude.

• IPA^(key): /ky.bi.tys/

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cubitus m (plural cubitus)

1. (anatomy) ulna

• humérus
• radius

• “cubitus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

Perfect passive participle of cubō (“lie down, recline”).

cubitus (feminine cubita, neuter cubitum); first/second-declension participle

1. reclined, lying down, having been reclined.

First/second-declension adjective.

cubitus m (genitive cubitūs); fourth declension

1. (rare) a lying down
2. (figuratively, rare) bed, couch

   Synonym: triclīnium

Fourth-declension noun.

cubitus m (genitive cubitī); second declension

1. alternative form of cubitum

Second-declension noun.

• cubitālis

• “cubitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cubitus", 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)
• cubitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cubitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cubitus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from French cubitus.

cubitus n (uncountable)

1. ulna