cubiculum

English

cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)

A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as a mortuary chapel, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.

small room

catacomb room

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

From cubō (“to lie down”) + -i- + -culum.

cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension

“cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cubiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"cubiculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“cubiculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“cubiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“cubiculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

cubiculum n (plural cubiculumuri)