cubo

Galician

Noun

cubo m ‎(plural cubos)

1. cube (shape)

Related terms

• cúbico

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ubo

Adjective

cubo m ‎(feminine singular 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

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Latin

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. I lie down, recline.
2. I sleep; lie asleep.
3. I recline at table (for a meal).
4. I am sick, bedridden.

Inflection

Conjugation of cubo (first conjugation, active only)
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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cubāre	cubuisse	cubitūrus esse	—	—	—
participles		cubāns	—	cubitūrus	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		nominative	genitive	dative/ablative	accusative	accusative	ablative
		cubāre	cubandī	cubandō	cubandum	cubitum	cubitū

Related terms

cubiculāris cubiculārius cubiculum

cubīle cubital cubitō

cubitum incubō incubus

Descendants

• French: couver
• Italian: covare
• Venetian: coar
• Walloon: cover

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Noun

cubō

1. dative singular of cubus
2. ablative singular of cubus

References

• cubo in Charlton T. Lewis & 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, 1883–1887)
• cubo in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
    

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Portuguese

cubo

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

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, cubic
• raiz cúbica, cube root

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβo̞/

Noun

cubo m ‎(plural cubos)

1. cube
2. bucket

Related terms

• cúbico
• (diminutive): cubito