cubo

From Latin cubus.

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. cube

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cubo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin cubus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβo̝/

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. cube (shape)

• cúbico

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβo̝/

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. tower, turret (of a castle)
2. bucket
3. pond or reservoir of a watermill

   Synonym: pozo

4. mill race

   Synonyms: cal, canle, levada

• cuba

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cubo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cubo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cubo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin cubus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.bo/
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: cù‧bo

cubo (feminine cuba, masculine plural cubi, feminine plural cube)

1. cubic

cubo m (plural cubi)

1. cube

• elevare al cubo to cube in mathematics

• buco, bucò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.bo]

From Proto-Italic *kubāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-.

Compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), English hip, Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”).

cubō (present infinitive cubāre, perfect active cubuī, supine cubitum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to lie down, recline

   Synonym: iaceō

2. to sleep; lie asleep

   Synonyms: dormiō, dormītō

   Antonyms: expergīscor, vigilō

3. to recline at table (for a meal)
4. to be sick, bedridden

   Synonyms: aegrōtō, iaceō, langueō, languēscō

   Antonym: valeō

5. to incubate, be broody

• *cumbō

• Asturian: acobar, acoubar^?
• Friulian: covâ
• Italian: covare
• Lombard: covà
• Old French: cover
  • French: couver
  • Old French: (f) covée
    • → Middle English: convei, convey
      • English: covey
• Piedmontese: coé
• Sicilian: cuvari
• Venetan: coar
• Walloon: cover

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cubō

1. dative/ablative singular of cubus

• “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cubo", 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)
• cubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
    
• Logeion DMLBS entry for cubare

From Latin cubus.

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
2. any object whose shape is similar to that of a cube
3. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number or mathematical expression)

• cúbico
• raiz cúbica

cubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cubar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkubo/ [ˈku.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: cu‧bo

From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
2. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number, value, term or expression)

   El cubo de 2 es 8.

   The cube of 2 is 8.

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. (Spain, Cuba) bucket, pail (a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items)

   Synonym: balde

• “cubo”, 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
• “cubo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

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