词汇 | cubicle |
词源 | cubicle [LME] A cubicle is now any small partitioned-off area, but at first it was specifically a little place for lying down or a bedroom. The source is Latin cubiculum, from cubare ‘to lie down’, source also of incumbent [LME]. Incubation [E17th] is based on the same Latin word, as is concubine [ME], originally someone you go to bed with. |
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