cubo

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cubo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• 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): /ˈku.boː/, [ˈkʊboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bo/, [ˈkuːbo]

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

   Synonym: iaceō

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

   Antonym: valeō

5. to incubate, be broody

Conjugation

Conjugation of cubō (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	cubitūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		cubāns	—	cubitūrus	—	—	—
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
• succubō

 

Related terms

• *cumbō

Descendants

• Friulian: covâ
• Italian: covare
• Lombard: covà
• Old French: cover
  • French: couver
  • Old French: (f) covée
    • → 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 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• buco