Galician

Noun

cubo m ‎(plural cubos)

1. cube (shape)

Related terms

• cúbico

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

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

Related terms

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 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cubo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

• cúbico, cubic
• raiz cúbica, cube root

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