cubo

Galician

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. cube (shape)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ubo

Adjective

cubo (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

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

Descendants

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Noun

cubō

  1. dative singular of cubus
  2. 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, 1883–1887)
  • cubo 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

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkubo/, [ˈkuβo]

Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)

  1. cube
  2. bucket

Derived terms

Further reading

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