adverb
alicubī̆
alicubī̆ (not comparable)
Classical[aˈlɪ.kʊ.bɪ]Ecclesiastical[aˈliː.ku.bi]
Meaning
- not comparablesomewhere
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
somewhere
alicubi — in De Bello Gallico II
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- considere alicubi (Att. 5. 14. 1)
- to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere.
- sedem collocare alicubi (Rep. 2. 19. 34)
- to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere.
- sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
- to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere.
ălĭcŭbi (earlier written ălĭquobi, like
I. neutrobi, acc. to Cassiod. Orth. 2314 P.; cf. Schneid. Gr. 1, 29), adv. aliquis-ubi, somewhere, anywhere, at any place, or in any thing (Inter alicubi et usquam hoc interest, quod alicubi absolute profertur, ut alicubi fuimus, i. e. in aliquo loco;
usquam autem ad omnia loca refertur, Prisc. p. 1058 P.; very rare): si salvus sit Pompeius et constiterit alicubi, hanc ϝεκυίαν relinquas, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10. I. In gen.: tu si alicubi fueris, dices hic porcos coctos ambulare, if you shall be anywhere, i. e. wherever you may be, Petr. 45.—
II. Esp.
A. Alicubi ... alicubi, repeated, in one place ... in another, here ... there, like alius, alias, alibi, etc.:
ut alicubi obstes tibi, alicubi irascaris, alicubi instes gravius, Sen. Tranq. 2, 2: tecta alicubi imposita montibus, alicubi ex plano in altitudinem montium educta, id. Ep. 89, 21 (in both passages some read aliubi; v. Fickert).—B. Strengthened by other definite words:
utinam hic prope adesset alicubi, somewhere here, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 7: hic alicubi in Crustumenio, Cic. Fl. 29, 71: in quibus (scriptis) et suum alicubi reperiri nomen, Suet. Gram. 7.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
alicubī adv.
old aliquōbī, at any place, somewhere, anywhere: utinam hic prope adsit alicubi, T.: hic alicubi in Crustumenio.
Origins
From ali- (“some”) + cubī̆ (“where”), the original form of ubī̆, from the PIE interrogative stem *kʷo-. Compare uter (“which of two”) which replaced *cuter, from *kʷóteros.