cubiculum
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.
Noun edit
cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)
- A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
- A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.
Translations edit
catacomb room
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From cubō (lie down) + -culum.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lum/, [kʊˈbɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lum/, [kuˈbiːkulum]
Noun edit
cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension
Declension edit
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 edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: cubicle
- → English: cubicle
- Galician: acubillo
- Portuguese: cubículo
- Spanish: cubículo, cobijo
- → Welsh: cuddygl, cufygl
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum.
Noun edit
cubiculum n (plural cubiculumuri)
Declension edit
Declension of cubiculum
singular | plural | |||
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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 |