cubile
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cubīle (“bed”).
Noun
[edit]cubile (plural cubiles)
- (obsolete, architecture) The lowest course of stones in a building.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cubile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cubō (“to lie down”) + -īle.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kuˈbiː.le/, [kʊˈbiːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.le/, [kuˈbiːle]
Noun
[edit]cubīle n (genitive cubīlis); third declension
- bed
- (by extension) marriage bed
- couch
- place of rest
- lair, kennel, hole (where an animal or creature of some kind rests)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cubīle | cubīlia |
Genitive | cubīlis | cubīlium |
Dative | cubīlī | cubīlibus |
Accusative | cubīle | cubīlia |
Ablative | cubīlī | cubīlibus |
Vocative | cubīle | cubīlia |
Synonyms
[edit]- (bed): lectus
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “cubile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cubile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cubile 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)
- cubile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- en:Architecture
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- la:Furniture
- la:Sleep