cubeta

From cup +‎ -eta. Some usages influenced by French cuvette.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈβɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kuˈbə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈbe.ta]

cubeta f (plural cubetes)

1. (chemistry) cuvette
2. (photography) tray
3. (printing) plate mark

• “cubeta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cubeta, from cuba + -eta.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈbeta/ [kuˈβ̞e.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: cu‧be‧ta

cubeta f (plural cubetas)

1. (nautical) kind of bucket for bailing out water
2. tub, bucket, pail
3. cuvette

• cuba

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cubeta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cubeta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cubeta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From cuba + -eta.

cubeta f (plural cubetas)

1. (hapax legomenon) diminutive of cuba

• Galician: cubeta
• Portuguese: cubeta

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cubeta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cubeta, from cuba + -eta. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French cuvette.

• Rhymes: -etɐ
• Hyphenation: cu‧be‧ta

cubeta f (plural cubetas)

1. diminutive of cuba
3. (analytical chemistry) cuvette

• “cubeta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cubeta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “cubeta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “cubeta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

From cuba +‎ -eta.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈbeta/ [kuˈβ̞e.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: cu‧be‧ta

cubeta f (plural cubetas)

1. cuvette
2. (Honduras, Mexico) bucket, pail (container)

   Synonym: balde

• → Tagalog: kubeta

cubeta f

1. feminine singular of cubeto

• “cubeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025