cubiculum

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjuːˈbɪkjʊləm/

Noun

cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)

1. A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
2. A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.

Translations

small room

Italian: cubicolo (it) m

catacomb room

Bulgarian: погребална камера (pogrebalna kamera) Italian: cubicolo (it) m

Latin

Etymology

From cubō (lie down) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊˈbɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuˈbiː.ku.lum]

Noun

cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension

1. small bedroom; bedchamber

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cubiculum	cubicula
genitive	cubiculī	cubiculōrum
dative	cubiculō	cubiculīs
accusative	cubiculum	cubicula
ablative	cubiculō	cubiculīs
vocative	cubiculum	cubicula

Derived terms

• cubiculārius
• cubiculātus

Related terms

• cubiculāris
• cubīle
• cubital
• cubitō
• cubitum
• cubō
• incubō
• incubus

Descendants

• Italian: coviglio, → cubicolo
• Spanish: cobijo, → cubículo
• → Catalan: cubicle, cubiculum
• → English: cubicle
• → Galician: acubillo
• → Portuguese: cubículo
• → Proto-Brythonic:
  • Middle Welsh: kuðugyl
    • Welsh: cuddygl, cufygl
• → Romanian: cubiculum

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)

1. cubiculum

Declension

Declension of cubiculum

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cubiculum	cubiculumul		cubiculumuri	cubiculumurile
genitive-dative	cubiculum	cubiculumului		cubiculumuri	cubiculumurilor
vocative	cubiculumule			cubiculumurilor