cubile
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin cubīle (“bed”).
Noun
editReferences
edit- ^ “cubile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom cubō (“to lie down”) + -īle.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kuˈbiː.le/, [kʊˈbiːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.le/, [kuˈbiːle]
Noun
editcubīle n (genitive cubīlis); third declension
- bed
- Synonym: lectus
- (by extension) marriage bed
- couch
- place of rest
- lair, kennel, hole (where an animal or creature of some kind rests)
Declension
editThird-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cubīle | cubīlia |
Genitive | cubīlis | cubīlium |
Dative | cubīlī | cubīlibus |
Accusative | cubīle | cubīlia |
Ablative | cubīlī | cubīlibus |
Vocative | cubīle | cubīlia |
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “cubile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cubile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cubile 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)
- cubile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- la:Animal dwellings
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- la:Sleep