librocubicularist
/ˌlaɪbɹoʊˌkjubɪˈkjʊləɹɪst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Miss Chapman, you take the book up with you and read it in bed if you want to. Are you a librocubicularist?" Titania looked a little scandalized. "It's all right, my dear," said Helen. "He only means are you fond of reading in bed. I've been waiting to hear him work that word into the conversation. He made it up, and he's immensely proud if it.""
- "I always smoke an acre of tobacco in bed while reading the most delightful book for all librocubicularists. (I don't think there is such as word as librocubicularist, but Mr. Christopher Morley used it to good advantage in "The Haunted Bookshop" and it has a terrifying sound to the uninitiated ear.)"
- "Ubiquitous as pet owners are, the librocubicularists outnumber them. While dog and cat people can readily be identified by a certain indefinable aura that hovers about them, the "libro" can't be detected until it's too late. […] One night the libro will turn to his loved one and announce that he thinks he will "read for a while." That may well be the beginning of the end. […] The librocubicularist, or reader in bed, should always seek out a mate with the same malady."
- "To be clear, I don't only read on planes: I'm a librocubicularist. I love reading in bed."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin liber Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English libro- Proto-Italic *kubāō Latin cubō Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom Proto-Italic *-klom Latin -culum Latin cubiculum Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Latin cubiculārislbor. English cubicular Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English librocubicularist Coined by the American writer Christopher Morley (1890–1957) in The Haunted Bookshop (1919; see the quotation), probably from libro- (prefix meaning ‘book’) + cubicular (“(obsolete) belonging to a bedchamber”) + -ist (suffix denoting one who engages in a particular type of activity). Cubicular is a learned borrowing from Latin cubiculāris (“relating to a bedroom”), from cubiculum (“small bedroom, bedchamber”) + -āris (“suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives”); and cubiculum is derived from cubāre (the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to sleep”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-) + -i- (interfix used between stems and suffixes) + -culum (an inflected form of -culus, a variant of -ulus (diminutive suffix)).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌlaɪbɹoʊˌkjubɪˈkjʊləɹɪst/
- British English: /ˌlaɪbɹəʊˌkjuːbɪˈkjʊləɹɪst/