cubículo
See also: cubiculo
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedroom; bedchamber”), from cubō (“to lie down, to sleep”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ikulu
- Hyphenation: cu‧bí‧cu‧lo
Noun edit
cubículo m (plural cubículos)
- cubicle
- cubbyhole
- cell (in a monastery or prision)
- (archaic) bedchamber
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom; bedchamber”), from cubō (“to lie down, to sleep”). Doublet of cobijo, which was inherited.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cubículo m (plural cubículos)
Further reading edit
- “cubículo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014