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cubiculum

English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.

Noun

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cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)

  1. A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
  2. A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From cubō (lie down) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension

  1. small bedroom; bedchamber

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cubiculum cubicula
Genitive cubiculī cubiculōrum
Dative cubiculō cubiculīs
Accusative cubiculum cubicula
Ablative cubiculō cubiculīs
Vocative cubiculum cubicula

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • “cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cubiculum 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)
  • cubiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cubiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cubiculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum.

Noun

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cubiculum n (plural cubiculumuri)

  1. cubiculum

Declension

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Declension of cubiculum
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cubiculum cubiculumul (niște) cubiculumuri cubiculumurile
genitive/dative (unui) cubiculum cubiculumului (unor) cubiculumuri cubiculumurilor
vocative cubiculumule cubiculumurilor
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