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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CUBICULUM

From Latin: cubicle.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CUBICULUM

cubiculum  [kjuːˈbɪkjʊləm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUBICULUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cubiculum is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CUBICULUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cubiculum in the English dictionary

The definition of cubiculum in the dictionary is an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUBICULUM


aciculum
əˈsɪkjʊləm
baculum
ˈbækjʊləm
corniculum
kɔːˈnɪkjʊləm
curriculum
kəˈrɪkjʊləm
diverticulum
ˌdaɪvəˈtɪkjʊləm
hibernaculum
ˌhaɪbəˈnækjʊləm
inoculum
ɪˈnɒkjʊləm
Janiculum
dʒəˈnɪkjʊləm
operculum
əʊˈpɜːkjʊləm
osculum
ˈɒskjʊləm
reticulum
rɪˈtɪkjʊləm
retinaculum
ˌrɛtɪˈnækjʊləm
saeculum
ˈsaɪkjʊləm
seculum
ˈsɛkjʊləm
speculum
ˈspɛkjʊləm
spiculum
ˈspɪkjʊləm
tenaculum
tɪˈnækjʊləm
tuberculum
tjʊˈbɜːkjʊləm
Tusculum
ˈtʌskjʊləm
vinculum
ˈvɪŋkjʊləm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUBICULUM

cubic
cubic capacity
cubic measure
cubica
cubical
cubically
cubicalness
cubicity
cubicle
cubicly
cubicula
cubiform
cubism
Cubist
cubistic
cubistically
cubit
cubital
cubiti
cubitus

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUBICULUM

acetabulum
alternative curriculum
animalculum
Basic Curriculum
core curriculum
endoplasmic reticulum
frenulum
furculum
infundibulum
National Curriculum
pendulum
receptaculum
suboperculum
supernaculum
sustentaculum
tentaculum
umbraculum
vasculum
vestibulum
vibraculum

Synonyms and antonyms of cubiculum in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cubiculum» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUBICULUM

Find out the translation of cubiculum to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cubiculum from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cubiculum» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cubiculum
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cubículo
570 millions of speakers

English

cubiculum
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cubiculum
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cubiculum
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cubiculum
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cubiculum
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cubiculum
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cubiculum
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kubikulum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cubiculum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クビクルム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cubiculum
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cubiculum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cubiculum
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிணங்களைப் புதைக்கும் மண்டபம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घनक्यूलम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cubiculum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cubiculum
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cubiculum
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cubiculum
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

decoreze camera
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Cubiculum
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cubiculum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cubiculum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cubiculum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cubiculum

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUBICULUM»

The term «cubiculum» is normally little used and occupies the 117.652 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CUBICULUM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cubiculum» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cubiculum» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cubiculum

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUBICULUM»

Discover the use of cubiculum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cubiculum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Necropolis of Cyrene: Two Hundred Years of Exploration
cubiculum with barrel-vaulted arcosolia at the rear. In contrast, in Tomb N. 165 the dividing wall between two loculi has been only horizontally truncated above the original floor level of the earlier cut galleried loculi to form an antechamber, ...
James Copland Thorn, 2005
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Rome the Cosmopolis
Catacomb of Commodilla, Cubiculum Leonis, frescos painted in the last quarter of the fourth century. This view shows the interior of the cubiculum with the bust of Christ between A and CO on the vault, the image of Christ carrying a book ...
Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf, 2006
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A History of Roman Art, Enhanced Edition
But in mature Second Style designs, like that of cubiculum 16 (Figs. 3-14, no. 7, and 3-21) of the Villa of the Mysteries, the viewer also gets a glimpse beyond the walls. In cubiculum 16, the marble-paneled wall behind the projecting columns is  ...
Fred Kleiner, 2010
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Roman Woodworking
Notes Numbers of individual rooms (e.g., ''cubiculum 3'') are taken from the standard published plans of A. Maiuri or F. Coarelli. Pompeii-1 = Villa of the Mysteries (door frame of example 2 estimated from scars in plaster). Pompeii-2 = House of ...
Roger B. Ulrich, 2008
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Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought: ...
The hand drawing the hand being drawn etc. has the enclosed shape of a cubiculum: both hands touch one another. Joined together they make up a circle. At the same time the picture is dynamic, suggesting the movement of the drawing  ...
M. B. Pranger, 1994
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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, ...
cubiculum 11 cubiculum x exedra y cubiculum 2 oecus 6 cubiculum 4 cubiculum 8 cubiculum 16 FIGURE 15. Orthogonals in the wall painting "position" the viewer who wishes to see the perspectives resolved. behind the fictive colonnade has ...
John R. Clarke, 1991
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The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy: ...
women, and children experienced the transformative effects of divine presence. 71 Of all domestic spaces in ancient Rome, the cubiculum was most closely associated with secrecy, because it was widely seen as the room in which activities ...
Kristina Sessa, 2011
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Privata Luxuria: Towards an Archaeology of Intimacy : ...
The next day, Marcus Aper and Julius Secundus decided to pay their visit to Maternus to discuss the event. When they entered Maternus' cubiculum, they found the poet sitting and holding the book that he had read on the previous day ( 3.1).
Anna Anguissola, 2012
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A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: ...
Adjoining to this angle is a cubiculum, of a curved or round form, the windows of which admit the sun, in consequence, during its whole course. In the walls are inserted library presses, furnished with books, more for amusement than study -y  ...
George Gregory, 1819
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus
Color plates follow page 260. I. Aureus (gold coin) of Octavian, Asian mint, 28 B.C. Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. Tablinum 2, circa 20-1 B.C. II. Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale. Cubiculum, circa 60-40 B.C. III. House of Augustus, Rome.
Karl Galinsky, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUBICULUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cubiculum is used in the context of the following news items.
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All you need is lava: Sparks fly in Paul WS Anderson's Pompeii
Get a cubiculum. Milo also comes to the attention of Cassia (Emily Browning), the daughter of the city's ruler, Severus (Jared Harris), and for a ... «New Statesman, May 14»
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The Relics of Jesus: The Case of the Titulus Crucis
... who visited Jerusalem in 570, that he held in his hands, kissed and saw the Titulus in a “cubiculum” under the Golgotha basilica. It might also ... «The Bible and Interpretation, Feb 14»
3
Memo to King Herod: the Bethlehem bedroom tax
First, let me make clear that my own new local cubiculum** tax has been working extremely effectively. There can be no doubt that it is resulting ... «The Guardian, Dec 13»
4
Do Restored Frescoes Confirm Female Priesthood or Illustrate Fairy …
One, in a room called the "Cubiculum of the Veiled Woman," shows a woman whose arms are outstretched like those of a priest saying Mass. «Charisma News, Nov 13»
5
Restored Rome catacomb frescoes add to Catholic debate on …
(A fresco inside the catacomb of Priscilla'a “Cubiculum of the Veiled Woman” room showing a woman with outstretched arms like those of a ... «Reuters Blogs, Nov 13»
6
When Pompeii froze in the heat
To explain their lifestyle, the exhibition mimics the layout of a typical house: the atrium; the triclinium, or the dining area; the cubiculum, for ... «gulfnews.com, Apr 13»
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Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum, review
... well-to-do Roman house, with separate galleries housing the objects that once might have been contained in its atrium, cubiculum (bedroom, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 13»
8
Charles Darwent on art: Life and Death in Pompeil and …
The domestic setting of the exhibition – we walk through it as through a provincial Roman townhouse, atrium via cubiculum to hortus – "prompts ... «The Independent, Mar 13»
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Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, British Museum, review
As we pass from the atrium adorned with fountains and statues, into a cubiculum where a family member slept, a dining area, kitchen and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 13»
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Cabinets of curiosities filled with peculiar wonder at Herzliya museum
"Magicis Cubiculum Curiositatibus" comes from Shay Id Alony, an artist who often works in large-scale, all-encompassing environments. «Haaretz, Nov 12»

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