cubiculum

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”), from cubō (“lie down”). Doublet of cubicle, another borrowing.

Noun

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.

Translations

small room

• Italian: cubicolo (it) m

catacomb room

• Bulgarian: погребална камера (pogrebalna kamera)

• Italian: cubicolo (it) m

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Latin

Etymology

From cubō (lie down) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lum/, [kʊˈbɪ.kʊ.ɫʊ̃]

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Noun

cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension

1. A small bedroom; bedchamber.

Declension

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

• cubiculārius
• cubiculātus

Related terms

• cubiculāris
• cubīle
• cubital
• cubitō

• cubitum
• cubō
• incubō
• incubus

Descendants

• Catalan: cubicle
• English: cubicle
• Galician: acubillo
• Spanish: cubículo, cobijo

References

• 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, 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