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cubitum

cubitum

Latin

Noun

cubitum n ‎(genitive cubitī); second declension

elbow
cubit (measure)

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cubitum	cubita
genitive	cubitī	cubitōrum
dative	cubitō	cubitīs
accusative	cubitum	cubita
ablative	cubitō	cubitīs
vocative	cubitum	cubita

Alternative forms

cubitus

Descendants

Albanian: kut
Aromanian: cot
Asturian: coldu
Catalan: colze, cúbit
English: cubit
French: coude, cubitus
Friulian: comedon
Galician: cóbado, cotobelo, cotomelo, cúbito
Istriot: cumio
Italian: gomito, cubito

Norman: coute (Jersey, Guernsey), kut (Sark)
Occitan: coide
Portuguese: coto, cotovelo, côvado, cúbito
Romanian: cot
Romansh: cumbel, cundun
Sardinian: cuidu, cuitu, cúvidu, cuidale, coidale
Sicilian: gùvitu, ùvitu
Spanish: codo, cúbito
Venetian: gùmio, gòmio, gòmbio, comio

Etymology 2

Supine of cubō ‎(“lie down, recline”).

Verb

cubitum

supine of cubō

References

cubitum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
cubitum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cubitum”, 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