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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Latin
Etymology
From cubō (lie down) + -culum.
Pronunciation
Noun
cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension
- small bedroom; bedchamber
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
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 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
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum.
Noun
cubiculum n (plural cubiculumuri)
- cubiculum
Declension