lucubro
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *lewk-o-dʰro-, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate to lūx (“light”) and lūceō (“I am light”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.ku.broː/, [ˈɫ̪uːkʊbroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.ku.bro/, [ˈluːkubro]
- (Classical, poetic) IPA(key): /luːˈkub.roː/ — see usage note
Verb edit
lūcubrō (present infinitive lūcubrāre, perfect active lūcubrāvī, supine lūcubrātum); first conjugation
- (intransitive) to work at night or by candlelight or lamplight, lucubrate
- (transitive) to make, produce or compose at night, candlelight or lamplight
Usage notes edit
- In ordinary Classical Latin pronunciation, when the cluster br occurs intervocalically at a syllabic boundary (denoted in pronunciatory transcriptions by ⟨.⟩), both consonants are considered to belong to the latter syllable; if the former syllable contains only a short vowel (and not a long vowel or a diphthong), then it is a light syllable. Where the two syllables under consideration are a word's penult and antepenult, this has a bearing on stress, because a word whose penult is a heavy syllable is stressed on that syllable, whereas one whose penult is a light syllable is stressed on the antepenult instead. In poetic usage, where syllabic weight and stress are important for metrical reasons, writers sometimes regard the b in such a sequence as belonging to the former syllable; in this case, doing so alters the word's stress. For more words whose stress can be varied poetically, see their category.
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References edit
- “lucubro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lucubro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lucubro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to work by night, burn the midnight oil: lucubrare (Liv. 1. 57)
- to work by night, burn the midnight oil: lucubrare (Liv. 1. 57)
Spanish edit
Verb edit
lucubro