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cu⋅bi⋅cle

  [kyoo-bi-kuhl]
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–noun
1. a small space or compartment partitioned off.
2. carrel (def. 1).
3. a bedroom, esp. one of a number of small ones in a divided dormitory, as in English public schools.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L cubiculum bedroom, equiv. to cub(āre) to lie down + -i- -i- + -culum -cle 2
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car⋅rel

  [kar-uhl]
–noun
1. Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
2. a table or desk with three sides extending above the writing surface to serve as partitions, designed for individual study, as in a library.
Also, carrell.

Origin:
1585–95; var. sp. of carol enclosure
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cu·bi·cle   (kyōō'bĭ-kəl)   
n.  

  1. A small compartment, as for work or study.

  2. A small sleeping compartment, especially within a dormitory.


[Middle English, from Latin cubiculum, bed chamber, from cubāre, to lie down.]
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Word Origin & History

cubicle 
1483, from L. cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," orig. "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.

carrel 
1593, from M.L. carula "small study in a cloister," perhaps from L. corolla "little crown, garland," used in various senses of "ring" (e.g. of Stonehenge: "þis Bretons renged about þe feld, þe karole of þe stones beheld," 1330); extended to precincts and spaces enclosed by rails, etc. Specific sense of "private cubicle in a library" is from 1919.
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Medical Dictionary

Carrel Car·rel (kə-rěl', kār'əl), Alexis. 1873-1944.

French-born American surgeon and biologist. He won a 1912 Nobel Prize for his work on vascular ligature and grafting of blood vessels and organs.

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