cubitum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bi.tum/, [ˈkʊbɪt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bi.tum/, [ˈkuːbit̪um]

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• cubitus

Noun

cubitum n (genitive cubitī); second declension

1. elbow
2. cubit (measure)

Declension

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

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: cot, cotu
  • Romanian: cot
• Emilian: gòmet, gåmmt, gånbdt (Bologna), gòmat
• Istriot: cumio
• Italian: gomito
• Lombard: gombed
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: coudo
• Neapolitan: gùveto, vute, ute, viute, júvete
• Old French: coute, code, cote, cute
  • French: coude
    • Haitian Creole: koud
  • Norman: coute, kut (Sark)
  • Walloon: keute
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: coldu, codu
  • Leonese: coldo
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: colze
  • Occitan: coide, cobde
• Old Galician-Portuguese: covedo, côbedo
  • Galician: cóbado, cóbedo, códabo
  • Portuguese: coto, côvado
• Old Spanish: cobdo
  • Ladino: kovdo
  • Spanish: codo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: comedon
  • Ladin: cumedon
  • Romansch: cumbel, cundun
• Sardinian: cuidu, cuitu, cúvidu, cuidale, coidale
• Sicilian: gùvitu, ùvitu
• Venetian: gùmio, gòmio, gòmbio, comio
• → Albanian: kut (possibly)
• → Catalan: cúbit
• → French: cubitus
• → Galician: cúbito
• → Italian: cubito
• → Middle English: cubite, cubet, cubit, cubyte
  • English: cubit
  • Scots: cubit (obsolete)
• → Portuguese: cúbito
• → Romanian: cubitus
• → Spanish: cúbito
• ⇒ Latin: cubitālis
  • >? Mozarabic: qubtal
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: *covotelo
      • Galician: cotobelo
      • Portuguese: cotovelo
  • Sardinian: cuidale, coidale
  • → Italian: cubitale
  • → Spanish: cubital

Etymology 2

Supine of cubō (“lie down, recline”).

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cubitum

1. accusative supine of cubō

References

• “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