lucubrare
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Classical Latin lūcubrāre, present active infinitive of lūcubrō (“I work at night or by candlelight or lamplight”), from Proto-Italic *lewk-o-dʰro-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
lucubràre (first-person singular present lùcubro, first-person singular past historic lucubrài, past participle lucubràto, auxiliary avére)
- (literary, transitive, intransitive) to write by candlelight (or lamplight)
- (literary, transitive, intransitive, transferred sense) to carefully elaborate or develop (e.g. a thought)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of lucubràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “lucubrare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 9, page 260
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
lūcubrāre
- inflection of lūcubrō:
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
lucubrare
Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk-
- Italian terms borrowed from Classical Latin
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- Italian 4-syllable words
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