cubile

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cubīle (“bed”).

Noun

cubile (plural cubiles)[1]

  1. (obsolete, architecture) The lowest course of stones in a building.

References

  1. ^ “cubile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From cubō (“to lie down”) +‎ -īle.

Pronunciation

Noun

cubīle n (genitive cubīlis); third declension

  1. bed
    Synonym: lectus
  2. (by extension) marriage bed
  3. couch
  4. place of rest
  5. lair, kennel, hole (where an animal or creature of some kind rests)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

singular plural
nominative cubīle cubīlia
genitive cubīlis cubīlium
dative cubīlī cubīlibus
accusative cubīle cubīlia
ablative cubīlī cubīlibus
vocative cubīle cubīlia

Descendants

  • Asturian: cobil
  • Italian: covile
  • Portuguese: covil
  • Spanish: cubil, cobija
  • → English: cubile (learned)

Further reading

  • “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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