cubile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cubīle (“bed”).

Noun

cubile (plural cubiles)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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Latin

Etymology

From cubō (“to lie down”) +‎ -īle.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈbiː.le/, [kʊˈbiːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.le/, [kuˈbiːle]

Noun

cubīle n (genitive cubīlis); third declension

1. bed
2. (by extension) marriage bed
3. couch
4. place of rest
5. lair, kennel, hole (where an animal or creature of some kind rests)

Declension

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

• (bed): lectus

Descendants

• Italian: covile
• Portuguese: covil
• Spanish: cubil, cobija

References

• “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.