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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The seller isn’t necessarily being weird, “sofa-cum-bed”/“sofa-come-bed”/“sofa-co-bed” is actually how people refer to it in some places.

urbanladder.com/…/5-types-of-sofa-cum-bed-that-ev…

I think it comes from the Latin for “with”, something that is also present in the terms for some historical academic distinctions

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_honors

summa cum laude (/ˈsuːmə/), meaning “with highest praise”, typically awarded to graduates in the top 1%, 2%, or 5% of their class, depending on the institution. Some institutions either do not award the summa cum laude distinction or award it only in extraordinary circumstances

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stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’ve never looked it up before but in my head it has walkways meant “which is also a” or “which has turned into a.” I guess I was off a little but it is a very rarely seen expression. Probably because of the cum-cum-jizz association.

It’s the Latin preposition cum (“with”), used in hyphenated compounds to describe something that’s two things at once. Examples:

Kitchen-cum-dining room: a room that serves as both

Bed-cum-sofa: a sofa that converts to a bed

Secretary-cum-bodyguard: one person filling both roles
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- fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Similar to the Spanish “con”/“with” if it helps. Although we just call that sofá cama. So, sofa bed. No traces of VP Vance in between.
  
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tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Ah, “coom.”

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