cubitus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of cubit.

Noun

cubitus (plural cubiti)

1. (archaic) The ulna.
2. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the media and the postcubitus; the vein running along the dorsal edge of the discal cell.
3. (anatomy) The elbow, or the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
4. (anatomy) The forearm; the arm from the elbow to fingertip, or the corresponding portion of a jointed limb of an animal that uses the limb for locomotion or grasping.

Synonyms

• (vein of insect wing): Cu

Derived terms

• articulatio cubiti
• cubital

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of coude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.bi.tys/

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Noun

cubitus m (invariable)

1. (anatomy) ulna

   Synonym: ulna

See also

• humérus
• radius

Further reading

• “cubitus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.bɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.bi.tus]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of cubō (“to lie down, recline”).

Participle

cubitus (feminine cubita, neuter cubitum); first/second-declension participle

1. reclined, lying down, having been reclined.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cubitus	cubita	cubitum		cubitī	cubitae	cubita
genitive	cubitī	cubitae	cubitī		cubitōrum	cubitārum	cubitōrum
dative	cubitō	cubitae	cubitō		cubitīs
accusative	cubitum	cubitam	cubitum		cubitōs	cubitās	cubita
ablative	cubitō	cubitā	cubitō		cubitīs
vocative	cubite	cubita	cubitum		cubitī	cubitae	cubita

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *kubāō

Latin cubō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin cubitus

From cubō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

cubitus m (genitive cubitūs); fourth declension

1. (rare) a lying down
2. (figuratively, rare) bed, couch

   Synonym: triclīnium

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cubitus	cubitūs
genitive	cubitūs	cubituum
dative	cubituī	cubitibus
accusative	cubitum	cubitūs
ablative	cubitū	cubitibus
vocative	cubitus	cubitūs

Etymology 3

Noun

cubitus m (genitive cubitī); second declension

1. alternative form of cubitum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cubitus	cubitī
genitive	cubitī	cubitōrum
dative	cubitō	cubitīs
accusative	cubitum	cubitōs
ablative	cubitō	cubitīs
vocative	cubite	cubitī

Derived terms

• cubitālis

References

• “cubitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cubitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cubitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cubitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cubitus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cubitus.

Noun

cubitus n (uncountable)

1. ulna

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cubitus	cubitusul
genitive-dative	cubitus	cubitusului
vocative	cubitusule