cubículo

See also: cubiculo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedroom; bedchamber”), from cubō (“to lie down, to sleep”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lu/ [kuˈβi.ku.lu]

• Rhymes: -ikulu
• Hyphenation: cu‧bí‧cu‧lo

Noun

cubículo m (plural cubículos)

1. cubicle
2. cubbyhole
3. cell (in a monastery or prision)
4. (archaic) bedchamber

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom; bedchamber”), from cubō (“to lie down, to sleep”). Doublet of cobijo, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈbikulo/ [kuˈβ̞i.ku.lo]
• Rhymes: -ikulo
• Syllabification: cu‧bí‧cu‧lo

Noun

cubículo m (plural cubículos)

1. cubicle

Further reading

• “cubículo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014