cubitus

Borrowed from Latin cubitus. See also cubit.

cubitus (plural cubiti)

1. (archaic) The ulna.
2. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the media and the postcubitus
3. (anatomy) The elbow, or the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
4. (anatomy) The forearm; the arm from the elbow to fingertip, or the corresponding portion of a jointed limb of an animal that uses the limb for locomotion or grasping.

• (vein of insect wing): Cu

• articulatio cubiti
• cubital

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of coude.

• IPA^(key): /ky.bi.tys/

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cubitus m (plural cubitus)

1. (anatomy) ulna

• humérus
• radius

• “cubitus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Perfect passive participle of cubō (“lie down, recline”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bi.tus/

cubitus m (feminine cubita, neuter cubitum); first/second declension

1. reclined, lying down, having been reclined.

First/second declension.

cubitus m (genitive cubitūs); fourth declension

1. (rare) a lying down
2. (figuratively, rare) bed, couch

Fourth declension.

• (bed, couch): triclīnium

cubitus m (genitive cubitī); second declension

1. Alternative form of cubitum

Second declension.

• cubitum

• cubitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cubitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cubitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cubitus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cubitus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin