cubile

Learned borrowing from Latin cubīle (“bed”).

cubile (plural cubiles)^[1]

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

From cubō (“to lie down”) +‎ -īle.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈbiː.le/, [kʊˈbiːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.le/, [kuˈbiːle]

cubīle n (genitive cubīlis); third declension

1. bed

   Synonym: lectus

2. (by extension) marriage bed
3. couch
4. place of rest
5. lair, kennel, hole (where an animal or creature of some kind rests)

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

• Italian: covile
• Portuguese: covil
• Spanish: cubil, cobija
• → English: cubile (learned)

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cubile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.