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cubus
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊ.bʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkuː.bus]
Noun
cubus m (genitive cubī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “cubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cubus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cubus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cubus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cube”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Old Irish
Etymology
com- (“mutual, equal”) + fius (“knowledge”). Calque of Latin conscientia.
Pronunciation
Noun
cubus n
Inflection
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
- cuibsech (“conscientious, scrupulous, upright”)
Descendants
- Irish: cúis (“conscience”)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cubus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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