cubitum

Definitiones

1. elbow
   declension-2, neuter
2. cubit (measure)
   declension-2, neuter
3. Equivalent to 'cubit': The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Ter sēsē attollēns cubitōque adnīxa levāvit,”

Lifting herself three times, [Dido] had tried to raise upon her elbow, and thrice she had rolled back upon the bed …. (Fratantuono and Smith [2022], pg. 916: “The only elbow in Virgil: another graphic detail as the poet continues his emphasis on the physical.”)

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