cubiculum
Meanings
noun
- 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.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.
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