cuba

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
2. (feminine) industrial vat (large tub)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of cubar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of cubar:

cubar

1. to measure the volume of something in cubic units
2. (transitive) to cube (to raise to the third power)

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Concepts

vat

tub

bottle

box

📦

bucket

🪣

can

case

chest

container

crate

Cuba

🇨🇺

jar

🫙

jug

pail

pot

sack

tank

tin

trough

urn

barrel

vessel

bathtub

🛁

Synonyms

tina

tonel

banheira

🛁

jarro

caixa

📦

vasilha

vaso

continente

Translations

kuip

tobbe

Bütte

teil

tina

cuba

Bottich

Wanne

bak

artesa

cuve

gibrell

Zober

Zuber

cubell

🪣

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈku.bɐ/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: cūpa

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuba, from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.