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English

Alternative forms

• Cubism

Etymology

From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des cubes! assez de cubisme!”. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term.

See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kju?.b?z.?m/

Noun

cubism (countable and uncountable, plural cubisms)

1. (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. [from 1900s]
   • 2003, The New Yorker, 3 March,

   • 2005, The New Yorker, 29 Aug, p. 78,

Related terms

• cubist
• cubistic
• cubistically

Translations

Further reading

• cubism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cubisme.

Noun

cubism n (uncountable)

1. cubism

Declension

English

Etymology 1

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kyo?ob, IPA^(key): /kju?b/
• (US) enPR: kyo?ob, IPA^(key): /kjub/
• Rhymes: -u?b

Noun

cube (plural cubes)

1. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

4. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
5. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube

Synonyms

• (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): regular hexahedron (rare)
• (object in the form of a cube): block, brick, die, square block
• (number raised to the third power): third power

Hypernyms

• (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid

Translations

Verb

cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)

1. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

2. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
3. (transitive) To cut into cubes.

4. (Britain) to use a Rubik's cube.

Synonyms

• (to cut into cubes): dice

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• cubic
• cubical
• cuboid
• cubism
• cubist

See also

• line segment
• square
• tesseract

Etymology 2

Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).

Noun

cube (plural cubes)

1. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

   My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cebu

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyb/

Noun

cube m (plural cubes)

1. cube (all senses)
2. third-grader

Adjective

cube (plural cubes)

1. cubic

Verb

cube

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuber
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
5. second-person singular imperative of cuber

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ube

Adjective

cube f

1. feminine plural of cubo

Latin

Noun

cube

1. vocative singular of cubus

Portuguese

Verb

cube

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cubar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cubar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cubar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cubar