alicubi

Latin

Etymology

From earlier aliquobi, from alius (else) + cubī, *quobī, earlier forms of ubī (where).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈli.ku.bi/, [aˈlɪ.kʊ.bɪ]

Adverb

alicubi

  1. somewhere, anywhere
  2. elsewhere
  3. occasionally

References

  • alicubi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • alicubi in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • alicubi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem collocare alicubi (Rep. 2. 19. 34)
    • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
    • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: considere alicubi (Att. 5. 14. 1)
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