cubus

From Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.bus]

cubus m (genitive cubī); second declension

1. A mass, quantity
2. (geometry) A cube

Second-declension noun.

• “cubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cubus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cubus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cubus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cube”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

com- (“mutual, equal”) +‎ fius (“knowledge”). Calque of Latin conscientia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.βus/
  • (Blasse) [ˈku.βus]
  • (Griffith) [ˈku.βøs]

cubus n

1. conscience

   Synonym: cocubus

   Antonym: écubus

• cuibsech (“conscientious, scrupulous, upright”)

• Irish: cúis (“conscience”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cubus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language