cubo

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. cube

References

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. cube (shape)
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Etymology 2

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

Pronunciation

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. tower, turret (of a castle)
  2. bucket
  3. pond or reservoir of a watermill
    Synonym: pozo
  4. mill race
    Synonyms: cal, canle, levada
Related terms

References

  • “cubo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “cubo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cubo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cubo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cubo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ubo
  • Hyphenation: cù‧bo

Adjective

cubo (feminine cuba, masculine plural cubi, feminine plural cube)

  1. cubic

Noun

cubo m (plural cubi)

  1. cube

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kubāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-.

Compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), English hip, Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”).

Verb

cubō (present infinitive cubāre, perfect active cubuī, supine cubitum); first conjugation, no passive

  1. to lie down, recline
    Synonym: iaceō
  2. to sleep; lie asleep
    Synonyms: obdormīscō, dormiō, obdormiō, dormītō, obdormītō
    Antonyms: expergīscor, vigilō
  3. to recline at table (for a meal)
  4. to be sick, bedridden
    Synonyms: aegrōtō, iaceō
    Antonym: valeō
  5. to incubate, be broody
Conjugation
   Conjugation of cubō (first conjugation, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cubō cubās cubat cubāmus cubātis cubant
imperfect cubābam cubābās cubābat cubābāmus cubābātis cubābant
future cubābō cubābis cubābit cubābimus cubābitis cubābunt
perfect cubuī cubuistī cubuit cubuimus cubuistis cubuērunt,
cubuēre
pluperfect cubueram cubuerās cubuerat cubuerāmus cubuerātis cubuerant
future perfect cubuerō cubueris cubuerit cubuerimus cubueritis cubuerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cubem cubēs cubet cubēmus cubētis cubent
imperfect cubārem cubārēs cubāret cubārēmus cubārētis cubārent
perfect cubuerim cubuerīs cubuerit cubuerīmus cubuerītis cubuerint
pluperfect cubuissem cubuissēs cubuisset cubuissēmus cubuissētis cubuissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — cubā — — cubāte —
future — cubātō cubātō — cubātōte cubantō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives cubāre cubuisse cubitūrum esse — — —
participles cubāns — cubitūrus — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
cubandī cubandō cubandum cubandō cubitum cubitū
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Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cubō

  1. dative/ablative singular of cubus

References

  • “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cubo 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)
  • cubo 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
  • Logeion DMLBS entry for cubare

Portuguese

cubo

Etymology 1

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
  2. any object whose shape is similar to that of a cube
  3. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number or mathematical expression)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

cubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cubar

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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A cube
A plastic bucket

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkubo/
  • Rhymes: -ubo
  • Syllabification: cu‧bo

Etymology 1

From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
  2. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number, value, term or expression)
    El cubo de 2 es 8.
    The cube of 2 is 8.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. (Spain, Cuba) bucket, pail (a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items)
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