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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kʊˈbɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kuˈbiː.ku.lum]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''cubiculum''' ''n'' (genitive cubiculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[cubō]] “to lie down” with the instrumental suffix [[-culum]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of a bedroom.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a sleeping room, bedroom, the scene of marital relations, as in Terence, a room for study or receiving visitors, with ''ā cubiculō'' a servant of the imperial bedchamber, and a bed.^(OLD 2012) It meant any room, the emperor's box in the theatre or circus, the inner shrine of a temple, and in inscriptions a tomb.^(OLD 2012) In Vitruvius it was the bed in which a beam rests.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein says [[conclāve]] is any closed room, especially a state room, ''cubiculum'' a living room.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a bedroom, chamber.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it meant a chapel inside a church, a tomb, and an inner recess.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''cobijo'' and Italian ''coviglio''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|cubicle]] came in the mid-15th century, first meaning “bedroom”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a bedroom.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of the marriage chamber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a private room.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-15th century – English ''cubicle'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|bedroom]]; a bed.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A room; a private room.^(OLD 2012)
+ # The emperor's box (in the theatre).^(OLD 2012)
+ # An inner shrine.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A tomb.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[cubō]]
+ * [[cubīle]]
+ * [[conclāve]]
+ * [[en|cubicle]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}