cubiculum
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”), from cubō (“lie down”). Doublet of cubicle, another borrowing.
NounEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
catacomb room
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From cubō (lie down) + -culum.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lum/, [kʊˈbɪ.kʊ.ɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lum/, [kuˈbiː.ku.lum]
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NounEdit
cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension
- A small bedroom; bedchamber.
DeclensionEdit
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 |
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ReferencesEdit
- 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