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Latin
Etymology
From ob- + cubō (“lie down, rest”).
Pronunciation
Verb
occubō (present infinitive occubāre, perfect active occubuī, supine occubitum); first conjugation
- to lie or fall in, on, or down, especially in the grave; rest, repose
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 6.363–364:
- ‘vīdimus ōrnātōs aerāta per ātria picta
veste triumphālēs occubuisse senēs’- “We have seen , adorned in their embroidered , fallen dead throughout the bronze-covered halls: oft-honored old veterans.”
(The poetic voice of Mars is addressing Jupiter. The Gauls, having invaded Rome, have attacked elderly veterans who had had military triumphs, “senēs triumphālēs”; these vets were dressed in their symbolic garments, “ōrnātōs picta”; and it happened throughout the halls of state, “per ātria aerāta”. In other words, such enemy brutality is an affront to human dignity and Roman honor.)
Conjugation
References
- “occubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- occubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.