ubi.
where? in what place?, in which place?
Meaning & usage
where? in what place?, in which place?
Ubī̆ patera nunc est? — In cistulā.
Ubī̆ inveniam Pamphilium? Ubī̆ quaeram?
where or in a place where
Ubī̆ tyrannus est, ibī̆ plānē est nūlla rēs pūblica.
when
Ubī̆ carceri appropinquavit, portam apertam vidit. (Cambridge Latin course 3)
stands for either quō/quā/quibus (“in which, by which, with which, wherewith”)
a means, someway (to) (literally, “a place where”)
Where this word comes from
From Old Latin cubī with iambic shortening, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei or *kʷuβei, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷudʰei or *kʷobʰí (when compared with Hittite ku-wa-pi), from pronominal root *kʷu- + *-dʰi (locative suffix). Compare Ancient Greek πόθι (póthi). See also the same meanings in quō. The unexpected loss of c may be explained as a re-analysis of the negative nēcubi, where the c was interpreted as being from nec (the negation here was just the nē). This is also clear in the compound alicubi and sī-cubi. Contamination with ibi (“there”) is also possible.
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