cubicularius Latin · revision 36488

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la cubō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʊ.bɪ.kʊˈɫaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ku.bi.kuˈlaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cubiculārius''' (feminine cubiculāria, neuter cubiculārium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions also have ''cubuculārius'' and the syncopated ''cubīclārius'' and ''cubūclārius''.^(Georges 1913)

+ The genitive plural ''cubiculāris'' in Suetonius is a variant reading.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cubiculum|-ārius]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|la|cubiculum|t=bedroom]], itself from [[m|la|cubō|t=to lie down]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero is the first to use it, as a noun for the [[m|en|servant]] who looked after his master's bedroom: in the ''Verrines'' he tells his opponents that their bedroom servants are fond of a certain man.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it meant “of the bedroom”: Martial uses it in the titles of epigrams, one on a bedroom lamp, and Pliny the Elder uses it of bed covers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius names the chief of the emperor's bedchamber staff ''decurio cubiculariōrum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Late Latin the bedchamber servants of the imperial court were officials;^(TLL) Ammianus Marcellinus speaks of those set over the duties of the bedchamber,^(TLL) and Jordanes has the feminine for a chambermaid.^(Conte 2010)

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+ In the Church it meant a private [[m|en|chamberlain]],^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval courts the ''cubicularius'' was one of the officers of the prince's household; at the French court he ranked below the chamberlain in chief.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the noun for a bedroom servant.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses the adjective in the titles of epigrams.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius mentions the head of the bedchamber servants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus writes of the duties of the bedchamber.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 500 AD – Fulgentius uses the adjective of bedroom doors.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – It names a chamberlain at princely courts.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or belonging to a [[m|en|bedroom]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A servant of the bedchamber, a [[m|en|valet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin, feminine)'' A [[m|en|chambermaid]].^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A private chamberlain.^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|chamberlain]], an officer of a prince's household.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[excubicularius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}