cubito Latin · revision 36967

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la cubō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkʊ.bɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkuː.bi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cubitō''' (present infinitive cubitāre, perfect active cubitāvī, supine cubitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cubō|-itō|t1=to lie down]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists it from Plautus on among the words of the family of [[m|la|-cumbō]], and reconstructs the base as [[itc-pro|*kubā̆je/o-|t=to be lying]].^(de Vaan 2008) Because of the /b/ and because the root is found only in Italic and Celtic, its Indo-European origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Cognate with [[xfa|cupat]] and [[pgn|incubat]], both “lies”, and with [[wlm|kyscu|t=to sleep]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008) In the ''Curculio'' a character remarks ''anus hīc solet cubitāre'', “an old woman usually sleeps here”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to lie down or recline habitually, especially to sleep.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With ''cum'' it was used of sleeping with someone, in the sexual sense, in Plautus and later in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of a boy who slept with his older sister.^(Georges 1913) Columella says it of peacocks that roost on the ground, and Tacitus of reclining at someone's feet.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Ammianus it is said of soldiers encamped before a wall.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sleeping and of sleeping with someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a child sleeping with his sister.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of peacocks roosting on the ground.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian has the sexual sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus uses it of soldiers lying encamped.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To lie down habitually, [[m|en|recline]]; to take one's rest, [[m|en|sleep]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''cubitāre cum aliquō'': to sleep with someone, have sexual relations.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of soldiers: to lie encamped.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[accubitō]]

+ * [[incubitō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}