concumbo
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- concubō (Medieval Latin)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈkum.boː/, [kɔŋˈkʊmboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈkum.bo/, [koŋˈkumbo]
Verb edit
concumbō (present infinitive concumbere, perfect active concubuī, supine concubitum); third conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- (intransitive) to lie with (for sexual intercourse), share the bed of, sleep with
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.31–32:
- Dardanōn Ēlectra nescīret Atlantide nātum
scīlicet, Ēlectram concubuisse Iovī?- Naturally, how could he not know that Dardanus was born of Electra, the daughter of Atlas? And that Electra had lain with Jupiter?
(Ovid recounts the earliest mythological ancestors in the adopted lineage of Caesar Augustus. See Dardanus (son of Zeus) for a genealogical chart.)
- Naturally, how could he not know that Dardanus was born of Electra, the daughter of Atlas? And that Electra had lain with Jupiter?
- Dardanōn Ēlectra nescīret Atlantide nātum
Conjugation edit
- This verb does not have passive forms in Classical Latin.
- Impersonal passives are found (rarely) in Medieval Latin.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “concumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concumbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.