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The unexpected loss of c may be explained as a metanalysis of the negative nēcubi, where the c was interpreted as being from nec (truly here the negation was just the nē). This is also clear in the compound alicubi and sī-cubi. Contamination with ibi(“there”) is also possible.
“ saevus ubi Aeacidae tēlō iacet Hector, ubi ingēns Sarpēdōn, ubi tot Simois correpta sub undīs scūta virum galeāsque et fortia corpora volvit!”
“, where fierce Hector lies, by the spear of Achilles, where huge Sarpedon , where the Simois has seized and rolled beneath its waves so many shields, helmets and bodies of brave men!” (The repetition of “ubi” exemplifies anaphora. “Aeacidae” is a patronymic: Achilles was the grandson “of Aeacus.” Read virorum for virum, a syncopated genitive plural. See also: Simois or Simoeis; Sarpedon.)
The adverbs ubī̆(“where”), ubinam(“where in the world?”), ubī̆cumque(“wherever”) and ubiubi are sometimes used with the genitive of terra(“land”) (plural: terrārum), locus(“place”) (singular: locī, plural: locōrum), gens(“nation”) (plural: gentium), to denote the same meaning as "where on earth". "in what country" or "where in the world":
Ubi terrarum esses, ne suspicabar quidem!
Where on earth could you be, I didn't even mistrust you!
Ubi terrarum est?
Where on earth is he?
Quid ageres, ubi terrarum esses.
What will you do, where in the world should you be?
Ubi terrarum sumus?
Where in the world are we?
Ubi illum quaeram gentium?
Where in the world should I search for him?
Ubi loci fortunae tuae sint, facile intellegis.
You realize with ease where on earth your fortunes may be.
Ubi terrarum aut maris fuisti?
Where on earth or sea have you been?
Non edepol nunc, ubi terrarum sim, scio, si quis roget.
Heavens, I know not now, where in the world I may be, if anyone asks.
“ubi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ubi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
ubi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
when it was day: ubi illuxit, luxit, diluxit
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Ritschl, Friedrich (1870) “cubi = ubi und Verwandtes.”, in Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (in German), volume 25, pages 306–312 = Ritschl, Friedrich (1870) “cubi = ubi und Verwandtes bei Plautus.”, in Friedrich Ritschl’s Kleine Philologische Schriften (in German), volume III, published 1877, pages 135–143