cubitum

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Neuter substantive use of the perfect passive participle of cubō (“lie down, recline”).

Alternative forms

Noun

cubitum n (genitive cubitī); second declension

  1. elbow
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.690-691:
      Ter sēsē attollēns cubitōque adnīxa levāvit,
      ter revolūta torō est .
      Lifting herself three times, had tried to raise upon her elbow, and thrice she had rolled back upon the bed .
      (Fratantuono and Smith , pg. 916: “The only elbow in Virgil: another graphic detail as the poet continues his emphasis on the physical.”)
  2. cubit (measure)
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cubitum cubita
Genitive cubitī cubitōrum
Dative cubitō cubitīs
Accusative cubitum cubita
Ablative cubitō cubitīs
Vocative cubitum cubita
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

cubitum

  1. accusative supine of cubō

References

  • “cubitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cubitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cubitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
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