succuba

From Latin succuba, from succubō (“to lie under”).

succuba (plural succubas or succubae)

1. A female demon or fiend; a succubus.
   • a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates

     Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:

     In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.

succuba

1. feminine singular of succubo

succuba f (plural succube)

1. succubus (female)

From succubō (“I lie under”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊk.kʊ.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuk.ku.ba]

succuba f (genitive succubae); first declension

1. strumpet
2. succubus

First-declension noun.

• “succuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• succuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin succuba.

succuba c

1. succubus