excubiae

Latin

Etymology

From excubō.

Noun

excubiae f pl (genitive excubiārum); first declension

1. watching, keeping watch (outside)
2. a watch, guard (group of people keeping watch)

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	excubiae
Genitive	excubiārum
Dative	excubiīs
Accusative	excubiās
Ablative	excubiīs
Vocative	excubiae

Alternative forms

• excubia

Noun

excubiae

1. inflection of excubia:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

References

• “excubiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “excubiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• excubiae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• excubiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “excubiae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “excubiae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin