lucubrare

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

References

Latin

Verb

lūcubrāre

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

Spanish

Verb

lucubrare

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