cubicle

English

From Late Middle English cubicle, from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubiculum.

cubicle (plural cubicles)

A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
Most libraries provide cubicles for quiet study.
- 1999, Mike Judge, Office Space, spoken by Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston):
  I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
(UK, Australia) A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- 2019 May 23, “Two female loos for every male one, experts recommend”, in BBC News‎, retrieved 14 August 2019:
  With more urinals than cubicles, men - unlike women - rarely queue, a Royal Society for Public Health report says.
- 2019 August 16, “Anti-sex toilets will soak users with water jets and sound alarm”, in Planet Rock‎, retrieved 17 August 2019:
  The toilets will have weight-sensitive floors to make sure only one person is using each cubicle at a time.

a small separate part or one of the compartments of a room

Chinese:
Mandarin: 斗室 (zh) (dǒushì), 斗居 (dǒujū)
Czech: kóje f
Finnish: koppi (fi)
French: box (fr) m
German: Arbeitsplatz (de) m; Kabine (de) f
Hebrew: תָּא‎ (he) m (ta)
Hungarian: fülke (hu), (for the specified purpose) olvasófülke, irodafülke, próbafülke (hu), zuhanyzófülke, (for sleeping) hálófülke, alkóv (hu)
Irish: cubhachail m
Portuguese: baia (pt) f
Russian: яче́йка (ru) f (jačéjka)
Slovene: kabina f
Turkish: kabin (tr), odacık (tr)
Welsh: ciwbicl m

a small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing

a small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use

Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”).

cubicle (Late Middle English)