User:KYPark/Etymology/cube

kubos

 * Ancient Greek κύβος


 * Etymology
 * Difficult to trace. The word passed to and from a number of languages (compare Latin cubus (mass, quantity)). Pokorny reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *keu(b)- 'to bend, to turn' (Pokorny:1959:588) although not generally accepted.


 * Noun
 * 1) square, cube
 * 2) die, dice
 * 3) chance
 * 4) (mathematics) cube, cubic number
 * 5) (anatomy) vertebra; hollow above the hip of cattle

cubus

 * Latin


 * Etymology
 * From Ancient Greek κύβος (kubos)


 * Noun
 * 1) A mass, quantity

cube

 * English


 * Etymology 1
 * From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kubos).


 * Noun
 * 1) (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
 * 2) Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
 * a sugar cube
 * a stock cube


 * Translations