cubitum
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.bi.tum/, [ˈkʊ.bɪ.tũ]
Etymology 1
Neuter substantive use of the perfect passive participle of cubō (“lie down, recline”).
Noun
cubitum n (genitive cubitī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cubitum | cubita |
| genitive | cubitī | cubitōrum |
| dative | cubitō | cubitīs |
| accusative | cubitum | cubita |
| ablative | cubitō | cubitīs |
| vocative | cubitum | cubita |
Alternative forms
Descendants
- Albanian: kut (borrowed)
- Aragonese: coudo
- Aromanian: cot
- Asturian: coldu
- Catalan: colze, cúbit (borrowed)
- English: cubit (borrowed)
- French: coude, cubitus
- Friulian: comedon
- Galician: cóbado, codobelo, cúbito (borrowed)
- Istriot: cumio
- Italian: gomito, cubito (borrowed)
- Ladin: cumedon
- Leonese: coldo
- Norman: coute (Jersey, Guernsey), kut (Sark)
- Occitan: cobde, coide
- Portuguese: coto, cotovelo, côvado, cúbito (borrowed)
- Romanian: cot, cubitus (borrowed)
- Romansh: cumbel, cundun
- Sardinian: cuidu, cuitu, cúvidu, cuidale, coidale
- Sicilian: gùvitu, ùvitu
- Spanish: codo, cúbito (borrowed)
- Venetian: gùmio, gòmio, gòmbio, comio
Etymology 2
Supine of cubō (“lie down, recline”).
Verb
cubitum
- 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
- (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
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