cubile

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

cubīle is, n

CVB-, a place of rest, couch, bed : suum: filiae: (Fennis) cubile humus, Ta.: patrium, O.— The marriage bed : viduum, O.: sociare cubilia cum alqo, contract marriage , O.— A nest, lair, hole, kennel ; of the vulture, Iu.; of dogs, Ph.; of wild beasts, C.: (alcibus) sunt arbores pro cubilibus, Cs.; of the mole, V.; of bees, V.— Poet.: Solis, H.—Fig.: avaritiae cubilia videre, the very lair : (pecuniae), resting-place .

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