excubiae

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Latin

Etymology

From excubō.

Noun

excubiae f pl (genitive excubiārum); first declension

  1. watching, keeping watch (outside)
  2. a watch, guard (group of people keeping watch)

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative excubiae
genitive excubiārum
dative excubiīs
accusative excubiās
ablative excubiīs
vocative excubiae

Alternative forms

Noun

excubiae

  1. inflection of excubia:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive/dative singular

References

  • “excubiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “excubiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • excubiae 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)
  • excubiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “excubiae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “excubiae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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