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Italian
Noun
concubina f (plural concubine)
- concubine
See also
Latin
Etymology
From concumbō (“I lie with”).
Pronunciation
Noun
concubīna f (genitive concubīnae); first declension
- concubine
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “concubina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concubina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concubina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- concubina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “concubina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “concubina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: con‧cu‧bi‧na
Noun
concubina f (plural concubinas)
- concubine (a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife)
- Synonyms: amásia, barregã
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konkuˈbina/
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: con‧cu‧bi‧na
Noun
concubina f (plural concubinas, masculine concubino, masculine plural concubinos)
- concubine
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