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Latin
Etymology
From sub- + *cumbō (“lie down”).
Pronunciation
Verb
succumbō (present infinitive succumbere, perfect active succubuī, supine succubitum); third conjugation
- to sink, fall, lie or break down
- to collapse, to succumb
- to concede defeat
- to surrender, to yield, to succumb
46 BCE,
Cicero,
Pro rege Deiotaro 36:
- Magnō animō et ērēctō est, nec umquam succumbet inimīcīs, nē fortūnae quidem.
- He preserves a great and lofty spirit, and will never succumb to his enemies, nor even to fortune.
- to submit
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “succumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “succumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- succumbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.