cubicle的词源

英文词源

cubicle

cubicle: see concubine

cubicle (n.)

mid-15c., "bedroom," from Latin cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." With Latin -clom, suffix denoting place. Obsolete from 16c. but revived 19c. for "dormitory sleeping compartment," sense of "any partitioned space" (such as a library carrel or, later, office work station) is first recorded 1926.

中文词源

cubicle：小房间

来自cub-,躺下，词源同incubus,succubus.-icle,小词后缀。

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