Italian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Classical Latin lūcubrāre, present active infinitive of lūcubrō (I work at night or by candlelight or lamplight), from Proto-Italic *lewk-o-dʰro-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (bright; to shine).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lu.kuˈbra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: lu‧cu‧brà‧re

Verb

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lucubràre (first-person singular present lùcubro, first-person singular past historic lucubrài, past participle lucubràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (literary, transitive, intransitive) to write by candlelight (or lamplight)
  2. (literary, transitive, intransitive, transferred sense) to carefully elaborate or develop (e.g. a thought)

Conjugation

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References

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  • Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “lucubrare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 9, page 260

Latin

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Verb

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lūcubrāre

  1. inflection of lūcubrō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

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Verb

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lucubrare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of lucubrar