куб
Russian
noun+
Definitions
- (geometry) cube shape with six square sides
- (mathematics) cube number raised to the third power
- (colloquial) cubic meter (cubic metre)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Kubus borrowed from Latin cubus derived from Ancient Greek κύβος (hollow before the hip, vertebra, die, cube, hollow in the hips).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κύβος
Gloss
hollow before the hip, vertebra, die, cube, hollow in the hips
Concept
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Ontological Category
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cubus Latin
- cupa Latin
- Kubismus German
- Kubus German
- kubus Dutch, Flemish
- cubisme French
- кубик Russian
- кубический Russian
- кубовый Russian
- кубок Russian
- cubo Spanish, Castilian
- κύβος Ancient Greek
- *keu(b)- Proto-Indo-European
- kube Norwegian Bokmål
- kube Norwegian Nynorsk
- cub Catalan, Valencian
- cubo Galician
- κύβος Greek (modern)
- куб Kazakh
- кубшылдық Kazakh
- кубъкъ Old East Slavic
- cubo Aragonese