Fromcubit +‎-al.

cubital (notcomparable)

1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to thecubit orulna.
2. (entomology) Of or pertaining to thecubitus and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
3. Measured incubits.
4. Of the length of a cubit.
   • 1650,Thomas Browne,Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […],→OCLC:

     towers of that city being so high, that unto men below they appeared in acubital stature

cubital (pluralcubitals)

1. (entomology)Synonym ofcubitus.
   • 1865,The record of zoological literature:

     Secondcubital cell irregularly quadrangular, trapezoid, placed in a direct line with the first and thirdcubitals

• “cubital”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

Substantivation ofapocopatedcubitāle,nominativeneutersingular ofcubitālis(“pertaining to the elbow”). Alternatively, directly fromcubitum +‎-al.

For the same meaning development (pillow, cushion, derived from a body part), compare: Latincervīcal (<Latincervīcālis),coxīnus (whencecushion) (<Latincoxa), Ancient Greekπροσκεφάλαιον(proskephálaion) (<κεφαλή(kephalḗ)), Greekμαξιλάρι(maxilári) (<Latinmāxillāris), Bulgarianвъзгла́вница(vǎzglávnica) (<глава́(glavá)), Slovakvankúš (akin to GermanWange).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.bɪ.taɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.bi.t̪al]

cubital n (genitivecubitālis);third declension

1. an elbowcushion for leaning on

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• “cubital”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cubital”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed fromFrenchcubital.

cubital m orn (feminine singularcubitală,masculine pluralcubitali,feminine and neuter pluralcubitale)

1. cubital

Borrowed fromLatincubitālis.

• IPA^(key): /kubiˈtal/[ku.β̞iˈt̪al]
• Rhymes:-al
• Syllabification:cu‧bi‧tal

cubital m orf (masculine and feminine pluralcubitales)

1. cubital

• “cubital”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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