cubo
Aragonese
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cubo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuβo̝/
Related terms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuβo̝/
Noun
cubo m (plural cubos)
Related terms
References
- “cubo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cubo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cubo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cubo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cubo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈku.bo/
- Rhymes: -ubo
- Hyphenation: cù‧bo
Derived terms
- elevare al cubo to cube in mathematics
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.boː/, [ˈkʊboː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /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
Conjugation
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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
- (ambiguous) to go to bed: cubitum ire
- Logeion] DMLBS entry for cubare
Portuguese

cubo
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈku.bu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈku.bo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /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)
Spanish

A cube

A plastic bucket
Etymology
From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkubo/ [ˈku.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -ubo
- Syllabification: cu‧bo
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.
- (Spain, Cuba) bucket, pail (a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items)
Derived terms
- cubito
- cubo de basura
- cubo de hielo (“ice cube”)
- cubo de Rubik
- cubetera
- tapacubos
Related terms
Further reading
- “cubo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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