lucubrate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin lūcubrātus, perfect passive participle of lūcubrō (“work by candlelight”), from lūx (“light”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editlucubrate (third-person singular simple present lucubrates, present participle lucubrating, simple past and past participle lucubrated)
- (rare) To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
- December 1991, K. Boo, “The organization woman”, in The Washington Monthly, volume 23, number 12, page 44:
- Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]
- To work or write like a scholar.
- 1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261,
- […] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject.
- 1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261,
Synonyms
editwork diligently
Derived terms
edit- lucubrated (obsolete)
Related terms
edit- elucubrate
- lucubration
- lucubratist (obsolete)
- lucubrator
- lucubratory
Translations
editwork diligently by artificial light; to study at night
work or write like a scholar
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Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editlūcubrāte
Spanish
editVerb
editlucubrate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of lucubrar combined with te
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