cubiculum

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”), from cubō (“lie down”). Doublet of cubicle, another borrowing.

Noun

cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)

1. A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
2. A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.

Translations

small room

• Italian: cubicolo (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

catacomb room

• Bulgarian: погребална камера (pogrebalna kamera)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: cubicolo (it) m

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Latin

Etymology

From cubō (lie down) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lum/, [kʊˈbɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.ku.lum/, [kuˈbiːkulum]

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Noun

cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension

1. A small bedroom; bedchamber.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cubiculum	cubicula
Genitive	cubiculī	cubiculōrum
Dative	cubiculō	cubiculīs
Accusative	cubiculum	cubicula
Ablative	cubiculō	cubiculīs
Vocative	cubiculum	cubicula

Derived terms

• cubiculārius
• cubiculātus

Related terms

• cubiculāris
• cubīle
• cubital
• cubitō

• cubitum
• cubō
• incubō
• incubus

Descendants

• Catalan: cubicle
• → English: cubicle
• Galician: acubillo
• Spanish: cubículo, cobijo

References

• “cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cubiculum 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)
• cubiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cubiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cubiculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin