cubitum

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Neuter substantive use of the perfect passive participle of cubō (lie down, recline).

Alternative forms

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Noun

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cubitum n (genitive cubitī); second declension

  1. elbow
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.690-691:
      Ter sēsē attollēns cubitōque adnīxa levāvit,
      ter revolūta torō est [...].
      Lifting herself three times, [Dido] had tried to raise upon her elbow, and thrice she had rolled back upon the bed [...].
      (Fratantuono and Smith [2022], pg. 916: “The only elbow in Virgil: another graphic detail as the poet continues his emphasis on the physical.”)
  2. cubit (measure)
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cubitum cubita
Genitive cubitī cubitōrum
Dative cubitō cubitīs
Accusative cubitum cubita
Ablative cubitō cubitīs
Vocative cubitum cubita
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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cubitum

  1. accusative supine of cubō

References

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  • cubitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cubitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cubitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire