cubitum

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Noun

cubitum n (genitive cubitī); second declension

  1. elbow
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.690-691:
      Ter sēsē attollēns cubitōque adnīxa levāvit,
      ter revolūta torō est [...].
      Lifting herself three times, [Dido] had tried to raise upon her elbow, and thrice she had rolled back upon the bed [...].
      (Fratantuono and Smith [2022], pg. 916: “The only elbow in Virgil: another graphic detail as the poet continues his emphasis on the physical.”)
  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
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: cot, cotu
    • Istro-Romanian: cot
    • Megleno-Romanian: cot, cuot
    • Romanian: cot
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Neapolitan: gùveto, vute, ute, viute, júvete
    • Old Italian: gombito
    • Sicilian: gùvitu
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
    • Friulian: comedon
    • Istriot: cumio
    • Ladin: cumedon
    • Venetian: gùmio, gòmio, gòmbio, comio
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: coudo
    • Old Leonese:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: covedo, côbedo
    • Old Spanish: cobdo
      • Ladino: kovdo
      • Spanish: codo
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: cuidu, cuitu, cúvidu
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • → Ancient Greek: κύβιτον (kúbiton)
    • → Proto-Albanian: *kuβət
  • Later borrowings:

Verb

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
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