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cubicle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl] Origin

cu·bi·cle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl]
noun
1.
a small space or compartment partitioned off.
2.
carrel (def. 1).
3.
a bedroom, especially one of a number of small ones in a divided dormitory, as in English public schools.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin cubiculum bedroom, equivalent to cub(āre) to lie down + -i- -i- + -culum -cle2

cubical, cubicle.
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cubicle (ˈkjuːbɪkəl)
 
n
1.  a partially or totally enclosed section of a room, as in a dormitory
2.  an indoor construction designed to house individual cattle while allowing them free access to silage
 
[C15: from Latin cubiculum, from cubāre to lie down, lie asleep]

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cubicle
late 15c., from L. cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE base *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." Obsolete from 16c., but revived 19c. for "dormitory sleeping compartment," sense of "any partitioned space" (such as a library carrel) is first recorded 1926.
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