succumbo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From sub- + *cumbō (“lie down”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sukˈkum.boː/, [s̠ʊkˈkʊmboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sukˈkum.bo/, [sukˈkumbo]
Verb edit
succumbō (present infinitive succumbere, perfect active succubuī, supine succubitum); third conjugation
- to sink, fall, lie or break down
- to collapse, to succumb
- to concede defeat
- to surrender, to yield, to succumb
- to submit
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
- Old French: succomber
- Portuguese: sucumbir
- Spanish: sucumbir
- Italian: soccombere
- Piedmontese: socombe
References edit
- “succumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “succumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- succumbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.