incubo

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Borrowed from Late Latin incubus.

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

incubo m (plural incubi)

1. nightmare, incubus

   Mi sono risvegliato da un incubo.

   I woke from a nightmare.

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

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪŋ.kʊ.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiŋ.ku.bo]

From Proto-Italic *enkubāō, By surface analysis, in- +‎ cubō (“I lie down”).

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

2. to lie, sit, or settle in, on or upon; recline
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.82-83:

     Sōla domō maeret vacuā, strātīsque relictīs / incubat, [...].

     Alone in the empty house, [Dido] mourns, and lies down upon the bedcovers [he has] abandoned, [...].

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

• Catalan: incubar
• English: incubate
• French: incuber
• Italian: incubare
• Portuguese: incubar
• Romanian: incuba
• Spanish: incubar

• “incŭbo¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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

incubō m (genitive incubōnis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• (incubus, nightmare): incubitor, incubus

• “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Regularly declined forms of incubus.

incubō m

1. dative/ablative singular of incubus

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar