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Etymology

cube

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1550s, from M.Fr. cube (13c.) and directly from L. cubus, from Gk. kybos "a cube, a six-sided die, vertebra," perhaps from PIE base *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." [1]

cubicle

etymonline

mid-15c., "bedroom," from L. cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE base *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." [2]

cubit

etymonline

ancient unit of measure based on the forearm from elbow to fingertip, usually from 18 to 22 inches, early 14c., from L. cubitum "the elbow," from PIE *keu(b)- "to bend." [3]

cubo

cubo#Latin

< Proto-Indo-European *keu(b)- 'to bend, to turn' (acc. to Pokorny:1959:588), although not generally accepted. [4]

cubus

kubos

Difficult to trace. The word passed to and from a number of languages [5] (compare Latin cubus (mass, quantity)). Pokorny reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *keu(b)- 'to bend, to turn' (Pokorny:1959:588) although not generally accepted.

dolmen

etymonline

1859, from Fr. dolmin applied 1796 by French general and antiquarian Théophile Malo Corret de La Tour d'Auvergne (1743–1800), perhaps from Cornish tolmen "enormous stone slab set up on supporting points," such that a man may walk under it, lit. "hole of stone," from Celt. men "stone." Some suggest the first element may be Bret. taol "table," a loan-word from L. tabula "board, plank," but the Breton form of this compound would be taolvean. "There is reason to think that this [tolmen] is the word inexactly reproduced by Latour d'Auvergne as dolmin, and misapplied by him and succeeding French archaeologists to the cromlech" [OED]. See cromlech, which is properly an upright flat stone, often arranged as one of a circle.

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