cubiculum

American  

[kyoo-bik-yuh-luhm] / kyuˈbɪk yə ləm /

noun

Archaeology.

plural

cubicula

1. a burial chamber, as in catacombs.

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cubiculum British  

/ kjuːˈbɪkjʊləm /

noun

1. an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs

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Etymology

Origin of cubiculum

1825–35; < Latin: bedroom. See cubicle

Example Sentences

In Mr. Paladino’s white cubiculum, or bedroom, a figure stares at the wall, seemingly looking away from the plaster casts of Vesuvius’s victims.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2018

It started with the afterthought that would always be the Business section; the identical cubiculum of the National staff, looking to the unschooled like other cubicles but actually a prancing ground that peacocks sought.”

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2010

Only a museum can frame a room as art, such as the Met's cubiculum, or bedroom, from the Roman town of Boscoreale on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.

From Time Magazine Archive

The works were probably commissioned by an unknown early Christian for a cubiculum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ego mulier, ego adolescens, ego ephebus, ego puer, Ego guminasi fui flos, ego eram decus olei: 65Mihi ianuae frequentes, mihi limina tepida, Mihi floridis corollis redimita domus erat, Linquendum ubi esset orto mihi sole cubiculum.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir