cubicularius

Latin

Etymology

From cubiculum (“bedroom”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ku.bi.kuˈlaː.ri.us/, [kʊbɪkʊˈɫ̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku.bi.kuˈla.ri.us/, [kubikuˈläːrius]

Adjective

cubiculārius (feminine cubiculāria, neuter cubiculārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) bedroom

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cubiculārius	cubiculāria	cubiculārium		cubiculāriī	cubiculāriae	cubiculāria
Genitive	cubiculāriī	cubiculāriae	cubiculāriī		cubiculāriōrum	cubiculāriārum	cubiculāriōrum
Dative	cubiculāriō		cubiculāriō		cubiculāriīs
Accusative	cubiculārium	cubiculāriam	cubiculārium		cubiculāriōs	cubiculāriās	cubiculāria
Ablative	cubiculāriō	cubiculāriā	cubiculāriō		cubiculāriīs
Vocative	cubiculārie	cubiculāria	cubiculārium		cubiculāriī	cubiculāriae	cubiculāria

Synonyms

• cubiculāris

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: covilleira
  • Galician: cobilleira

Noun

cubiculārius m (genitive cubiculāriī or cubiculārī); second declension

1. bedchamber servant; valet

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cubiculārius	cubiculāriī
Genitive	cubiculāriī cubiculārī1	cubiculāriōrum
Dative	cubiculāriō	cubiculāriīs
Accusative	cubiculārium	cubiculāriōs
Ablative	cubiculāriō	cubiculāriīs
Vocative	cubiculārie	cubiculāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Byzantine Greek: κουβικουλάριος (koubikoulários)

References

• “cubicularius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cubicularius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cubicularius 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)
• cubicularius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.