cubo

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡suˈbɔ/

Verb

cubó

1. second-person singular present imperative of cuboj

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. cube

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cubo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβo̝/

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. cube (shape)

Related terms

• cúbico

Etymology 2

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβo̝/

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. tower, turret (of a castle)
2. bucket
3. pond or reservoir of a watermill

   Synonym: pozo

4. mill race

   Synonyms: cal, canle, levada

Related terms

• cuba

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cubo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cubo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cubo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.bo/
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: cù‧bo

Adjective

cubo (feminine cuba, masculine plural cubi, feminine plural cube)

1. cubic

Noun

cubo m (plural cubi)

1. cube

Derived terms

• elevare al cubo to cube in mathematics

Anagrams

• buco, bucò

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.bo]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kubāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-.

Compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), English hip, Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”).

Verb

cubō (present infinitive cubāre, perfect active cubuī, supine cubitum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to lie down, recline

   Synonyms: iaceō, reclīnō, recumbō, incumbō

2. to sleep; lie asleep

   Synonyms: dormiō, dormītō

   Antonyms: expergīscor, vigilō

3. to recline at table (for a meal)
4. to be sick, bedridden

   Synonyms: aegrōtō, iaceō, langueō, languēscō

   Antonym: valeō

5. to incubate, be broody

   Synonym: incubō

6. (of inanimate objects) to lie, extend itself

   Synonyms: distendō, extendō, tendō, obtendō, porrigō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō, prōferō, explicō, pandō, incubō

   Antonyms: statuō, sistō, stringō, strictiō, astringō, perstringō, praestringō

7. (of places, in participle) to be in a sloping direction, slope; be inclining or sloping

   Synonyms: prōclīnō, inclīnō, clīnō, fastīgō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cubō (first conjugation, no passive)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cubō		cubās		cubat		cubāmus		cubātis		cubant
	imperfect	cubābam		cubābās		cubābat		cubābāmus		cubābātis		cubābant
	future	cubābō		cubābis		cubābit		cubābimus		cubābitis		cubābunt
	perfect	cubuī		cubuistī		cubuit		cubuimus		cubuistis		cubuērunt, cubuēre
	pluperfect	cubueram		cubuerās		cubuerat		cubuerāmus		cubuerātis		cubuerant
	future perfect	cubuerō		cubueris		cubuerit		cubuerimus		cubueritis		cubuerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cubem		cubēs		cubet		cubēmus		cubētis		cubent
	imperfect	cubārem		cubārēs		cubāret		cubārēmus		cubārētis		cubārent
	perfect	cubuerim		cubuerīs		cubuerit		cubuerīmus		cubuerītis		cubuerint
	pluperfect	cubuissem		cubuissēs		cubuisset		cubuissēmus		cubuissētis		cubuissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		cubā		—		—		cubāte		—
	future	—		cubātō		cubātō		—		cubātōte		cubantō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		cubāre			—			cubāns			—
future		cubitūrum esse			—			cubitūrus			—
perfect		cubuisse			—			—			—
perfect potential		cubitūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		cubandī		cubandō		cubandum		cubandō		cubitum		cubitū

Derived terms

• accubō
• cubiculāris
• cubiculārius
• cubiculum
• cubīle
• cubital
• cubitō
• cubitum
• excubō
• incubō
• incubus
• recubō
• sēcubō
• succubō

Related terms

• *cumbō

Descendants

• Asturian: acobar, acoubar^?
• Friulian: covâ
• Italian: covare
• Lombard: covà
• Old French: cover
  • French: couver
  • ⇒ Old French: covée f
    • → Middle English: convei, convey
      • English: covey
• Piedmontese: coé
• Sicilian: cuvari
• Venetan: coar
• Walloon: cover

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cubō

1. dative/ablative singular of cubus

References

• “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cubo", 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)
• “cubo”, 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
    
• Logeion DMLBS entry for cubare

Portuguese

cubo

Etymology 1

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bu/ [ˈku.βu]

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
2. any object whose shape is similar to that of a cube
3. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number or mathematical expression)

Derived terms

• cúbico
• raiz cúbica

Etymology 2

Verb

cubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cubar

Spanish

A cube

A plastic bucket

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkubo/ [ˈku.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: cu‧bo

Etymology 1

From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
2. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number, value, term or expression)

   El cubo de 2 es 8.

   The cube of 2 is 8.

Derived terms

• cubetera
• cubito
• cubo de caldo
• cubo de hielo (“ice cube”)
• cubo de Rubik

Related terms

• cúbico

Etymology 2

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

1. (Spain, Cuba) bucket, pail (a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items)

   Synonym: balde

Derived terms

• cubo de basura
• tapacubos

Further reading

• “cubo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “cubo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Anagrams

• buco