different between cubile vs nubile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cub?le (“bed”).

Noun

cubile (plural cubiles)

1. (obsolete, architecture) The lowest course of stones in a building.

Latin

Etymology

From cub? (“to lie down”) +? -?le.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku?bi?.le/, [k??bi????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku?bi.le/, [ku?bi?l?]

Noun

cub?le n (genitive cub?lis); third declension

1. bed
2. couch
3. place of rest

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Synonyms

• (bed): lectus

Descendants

• Italian: covile
• Portuguese: covil
• Spanish: cubil, cobija

References

• cubile in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cubile in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cubile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cubile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From French nubile, from Latin n?bilis (“marriageable”), from n?b? (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewb?- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (númph?, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nuba?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nju?ba?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

nubile (comparative more nubile, superlative most nubile)

1. Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman). [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: eligible, marriageable, wifeable
2. Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).

   Synonyms: foxy; see also Thesaurus:sexy

Usage notes

For a man, especially a young man, eligible is sometimes used as the corresponding term in the sense ‘marriageable’, particularly in the phrase eligible bachelor.

Derived terms

• nubility

Related terms

• connubial
• nuptial, nuptials

Translations

Noun

nubile (plural nubiles)

1. A young sexually attractive woman.

Anagrams

• beluin, unible

French

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ny.bil/

Adjective

nubile (plural nubiles)

1. nubile

Further reading

• “nubile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nu.bi.le/

Adjective

nubile (plural nubili)

1. unmarried

Noun

nubile f (plural nubili)

1. unmarried woman
2. spinster

Related terms

• nubilato

See also

• celibe

Latin

Adjective

n?bile

1. vocative masculine singular of n?bilus