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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Classical Latin lūcubrāre (“to work at night or by candlelight or lamplight”), from Proto-Italic *lewk-o-dʰro-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu.kuˈbra.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: lu‧cu‧brà‧re
Verb
lucubràre (first-person singular present lùcubro, first-person singular past historic lucubrài, past participle lucubràto, auxiliary avére)
- (literary, transitive, intransitive) to write by candlelight (or lamplight)
- (literary, transitive, intransitive, transferred sense) to carefully elaborate or develop (e.g. a thought)
Conjugation
References
Latin
Verb
lūcubrāre
- inflection of lūcubrō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Spanish
Verb
lucubrare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of lucubrar