# cubo
## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin cubus.

### Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)
* cube

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cubo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Latin cubus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuβo̝/

#### Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)
* cube (shape)

##### Related terms

* cúbico

### Etymology 2

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuβo̝/

#### Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)
* tower, turret (of a castle)
* bucket
* pond or reservoir of a watermill
    Synonym: pozo
* mill race
    Synonyms: cal, canle, levada

##### Related terms

* cuba

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cubo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cubo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cubo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin cubus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.bo/
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Hyphenation: cù‧bo

### Adjective

cubo (feminine cuba, masculine plural cubi, feminine plural cube)
* cubic

### Noun

cubo m (plural cubi)
* cube

#### Derived terms

* elevare al cubo to cube in mathematics

### Anagrams

* buco, bucò

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈku.boː/, [ˈkʊboː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈku.bo/, [ˈkuːbo]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kubāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-.
Compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), English hip, Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”).

#### Verb

cubō (present infinitive cubāre, perfect active cubuī, supine cubitum); first conjugation, no passive
* to lie down, recline
    Synonym: iaceō
* to sleep; lie asleep
    Synonyms: dormiō, dormītō
    Antonyms: expergīscor, vigilō
* to recline at table (for a meal)
* to be sick, bedridden
    Synonyms: aegrōtō, iaceō
    Antonym: valeō
* to incubate, be broody

##### Derived terms

* accubō
* cubiculāris
* cubiculārius
* cubiculum
* cubīle
* cubital
* cubitō
* cubitum
* excubō
* incubō
* incubus
* recubō
* succubō

##### Related terms

* *cumbō

##### Descendants

* Friulian: covâ
* Italian: covare
* Lombard: covà
* Old French: cover
** French: couver
** Old French: (f) covée
*** → Middle English: convei, convey
**** English: covey
* Piedmontese: coé
* Sicilian: cuvari
* Venetan: coar
* Walloon: cover

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

cubō
* dative/ablative singular of cubus

### References

* “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “cubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "cubo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* cubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
* Logeion DMLBS entry for cubare

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Latin cubus.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈku.bu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈku.bu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈku.bo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈku.bu/ [ˈku.βu]

#### Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)
* (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
* any object whose shape is similar to that of a cube
* (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number or mathematical expression)

##### Derived terms

* cúbico
* raiz cúbica

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cubo
* first-person singular present indicative of cubar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkubo/ [ˈku.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Syllabification: cu‧bo

### Etymology 1

From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

#### Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)
* (geometry) cube (a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces)
* (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number, value, term or expression)
    El cubo de 2 es 8.The cube of 2 is 8.

##### Derived terms

* cubetera
* cubito
* cubo de caldo
* cubo de hielo (“ice cube”)
* cubo de Rubik

##### Related terms

* cúbico

### Etymology 2

From cuba, from Latin cupa.

#### Noun

cubo m (plural cubos)
* (Spain, Cuba) bucket, pail (a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items)
    Synonym: balde

##### Derived terms

* cubo de basura
* tapacubos

### Further reading

* “cubo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “cubo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

### Anagrams

* buco