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

Here he lived, sleeping always in the same small cubiculum, for twenty-eight years; that is to say, until the third year after Christ, when the palace was almost destroyed by fire.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)