Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteBelonging or relating to a bedchamber or bedroom.
the inseparable Cubicular Companion the King took comfort in the height of his troubles
1655, James Howell, “To the Earl of Lindsey”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latincubō
- Latincubiculum
- Latincubiculāri
- Englishcubicular
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”).
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cubicular. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cubicular
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