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English

Noun

cubits

1. plural of cubit, an ancient unit of measurement

Anagrams

• Cubist, bustic, cubist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cubitus. Doublet of cubit.

Noun

cubitus (plural cubiti)

1. (archaic) The ulna.
2. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the media and the postcubitus; the vein running along the dorsal edge of the discal cell.
3. (anatomy) The elbow, or the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
4. (anatomy) The forearm; the arm from the elbow to fingertip, or the corresponding portion of a jointed limb of an animal that uses the limb for locomotion or grasping.

Synonyms

• (vein of insect wing): Cu

Derived terms

• articulatio cubiti
• cubital

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of coude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.bi.tys/

Noun

cubitus m (plural cubitus)

1. (anatomy) ulna

See also

• humérus
• radius

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ku.bi.tus/, [?k?b?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ku.bi.tus/, [?ku?bit?us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of cub? (“lie down, recline”).

Participle

cubitus (feminine cubita, neuter cubitum); first/second-declension participle

1. reclined, lying down, having been reclined.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

Noun

cubitus m (genitive cubit?s); fourth declension

1. (rare) a lying down
2. (figuratively, rare) bed, couch

   Synonym: tricl?nium

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Etymology 3

Noun

cubitus m (genitive cubit?); second declension

1. Alternative form of cubitum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• cubitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cubitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cubitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cubitus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cubitus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From French cubitus

Noun

cubitus n (uncountable)

1. ulna

Declension