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incubo

See also: incubò, incubó, and íncubo

Catalan edit

Verb edit

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Italian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Late Latin incubus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈin.ku.bo/
  • Rhymes: -inkubo
  • Hyphenation: ìn‧cu‧bo

Noun edit

incubo m (plural incubi)

  1. nightmare, incubus
    Mi sono risvegliato da un incubo.
    I woke from a nightmare.

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /inˈku.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ubo
  • Hyphenation: in‧cù‧bo

Verb edit

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubare

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From in- +‎ cubō (“I lie down”).

Verb edit

incubō (present infinitive incubāre, perfect active incubuī, supine incubitum); first conjugation, no passive

  2. to lie in or on
  3. to sit upon to brood or hatch
  4. to abide in; to inhabit
  5. (figuratively) to brood over
  6. (figuratively) to weigh upon; to be a burden to
  7. to settle on; to attach to
Conjugation edit
   Conjugation of incubō (first conjugation, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present incubō incubās incubat incubāmus incubātis incubant
imperfect incubābam incubābās incubābat incubābāmus incubābātis incubābant
future incubābō incubābis incubābit incubābimus incubābitis incubābunt
perfect incubuī incubuistī incubuit incubuimus incubuistis incubuērunt,
incubuēre
pluperfect incubueram incubuerās incubuerat incubuerāmus incubuerātis incubuerant
future perfect incubuerō incubueris incubuerit incubuerimus incubueritis incubuerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present incubem incubēs incubet incubēmus incubētis incubent
imperfect incubārem incubārēs incubāret incubārēmus incubārētis incubārent
perfect incubuerim incubuerīs incubuerit incubuerīmus incubuerītis incubuerint
pluperfect incubuissem incubuissēs incubuisset incubuissēmus incubuissētis incubuissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — incubā — — incubāte —
future — incubātō incubātō — incubātōte incubantō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives incubāre incubuisse incubitūrum esse — — —
participles incubāns — incubitūrus — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
incubandī incubandō incubandum incubandō incubitum incubitū
Descendants edit
  • Catalan: incubar
  • English: incubate
  • French: incuber
  • Italian: incubare
  • Portuguese: incubar
  • Romanian: incuba
  • Spanish: incubar

References edit

Etymology 2 edit

From incubō (“I lie upon, I brood over, I am a burden to”) +‎ -ō.

Noun edit

incubō m (genitive incubōnis); third declension

  1. one who lies upon something
  2. a spirit who watches over buried treasure
  3. incubus, nightmare
Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative incubō incubōnēs
Genitive incubōnis incubōnum
Dative incubōnī incubōnibus
Accusative incubōnem incubōnēs
Ablative incubōne incubōnibus
Vocative incubō incubōnēs
Synonyms edit

References edit

  • “incŭbo²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “incubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • incubo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Etymology 3 edit

Regularly declined forms of incubus.

Noun edit

incubō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of incubus

Related terms edit

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Spanish edit

Verb edit

incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar
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