cubile
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cubīle (“bed”).
Noun edit
cubile (plural cubiles)
- (obsolete, architecture) The lowest course of stones in a building.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cubile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From cubō (“to lie down”) + -īle.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kuˈbiː.le/, [kʊˈbiːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.le/, [kuˈbiːle]
Noun edit
cubīle n (genitive cubīlis); third declension
- bed
- (by extension) marriage bed
- couch
- place of rest
- lair, kennel, hole (where an animal or creature of some kind rests)
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cubīle | cubīlia |
| Genitive | cubīlis | cubīlium |
| Dative | cubīlī | cubīlibus |
| Accusative | cubīle | cubīlia |
| Ablative | cubīlī | cubīlibus |
| Vocative | cubīle | cubīlia |
Synonyms edit
- (bed): lectus
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cubile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cubile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cubile 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)
- cubile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.