incubo

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See also: incubò, incubó, and íncubo

Catalan

Verb

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin incubus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈin.ku.bo/
  • Rhymes: -inkubo
  • Hyphenation: ìn‧cu‧bo

Noun

incubo m (plural incubi)

  1. nightmare, incubus
    Mi sono risvegliato da un incubo.
    I woke from a nightmare.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈku.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ubo
  • Hyphenation: in‧cù‧bo

Verb

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubare

Latin

FWOTD – 14 November 2024

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *enkubāō, By surface analysis, in- +‎ cubō (“I lie down”).

Verb

incubō (present infinitive incubāre, perfect active incubuī, supine incubitum); first conjugation, no passive

  2. to lie, sit, or settle in, on or upon; recline
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.82-83:
      Sōla domō maeret vacuā, strātīsque relictīs / incubat, .
      Alone in the empty house, mourns, and lies down upon the bedcovers abandoned, .
  3. to sit upon to brood or hatch
  4. to abide in; to inhabit
  5. (figuratively) to brood over
  6. (figuratively) to weigh upon; to be a burden to
  7. to settle on; to attach to
Conjugation
   Conjugation of incubō (first conjugation, no passive)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present incubō incubās incubat incubāmus incubātis incubant
imperfect incubābam incubābās incubābat incubābāmus incubābātis incubābant
future incubābō incubābis incubābit incubābimus incubābitis incubābunt
perfect incubuī incubuistī incubuit incubuimus incubuistis incubuērunt,
incubuēre
pluperfect incubueram incubuerās incubuerat incubuerāmus incubuerātis incubuerant
future perfect incubuerō incubueris incubuerit incubuerimus incubueritis incubuerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present incubem incubēs incubet incubēmus incubētis incubent
imperfect incubārem incubārēs incubāret incubārēmus incubārētis incubārent
perfect incubuerim incubuerīs incubuerit incubuerīmus incubuerītis incubuerint
pluperfect incubuissem incubuissēs incubuisset incubuissēmus incubuissētis incubuissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — incubā — — incubāte —
future — incubātō incubātō — incubātōte incubantō
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present incubāre — incubāns —
future incubitūrum esse — incubitūrus —
perfect incubuisse — — —
perfect potential incubitūrum fuisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
incubandī incubandō incubandum incubandō incubitum incubitū
Descendants

References

Etymology 2

From incubō (“I lie upon, I brood over, I am a burden to”) +‎ -ō.

Noun

incubō m (genitive incubōnis); third declension

  1. one who lies upon something
  2. a spirit who watches over buried treasure
  3. incubus, nightmare
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative incubō incubōnēs
genitive incubōnis incubōnum
dative incubōnī incubōnibus
accusative incubōnem incubōnēs
ablative incubōne incubōnibus
vocative incubō incubōnēs
Synonyms

References

  • “incŭbo²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “incubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • incubo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Etymology 3

Regularly declined forms of incubus.

Noun

incubō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of incubus

Portuguese

Verb

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Spanish

Verb

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar
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