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cubicular

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kjuːˈbɪkjʊlə/
  • General-American: /kjuˈbɪkjələɹ/
  • rhymes with -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)

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adj

Meaning 1

Belonging or relating to a bedchamber or bedroom.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *kubāō Latin cubō Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom Proto-Italic *-klom Latin -culum Latin cubiculum Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Latin cubiculārislbor. English cubicular Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculāris (“relating to a bedroom”), from cubiculum (“small bedroom, bedchamber”) + -āris (“suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives”). Cubiculum is derived from cubāre (the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to sleep”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-) + -i- (interfix used between stems and suffixes) + -culum (an inflected form of -culus, a variant of -ulus (diminutive suffix)). Compare Middle English cubiculer (“servant working in a chamber, chamberlain”).