incubo

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See also: incubò, incubó, and íncubo

Catalan

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Verb

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incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Late Latin incubus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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incubo m (plural incubi)

  1. nightmare, incubus
    Mi sono risvegliato da un incubo.
    I woke from a nightmare.

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubare

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From in- +‎ cubō (I lie down).

Verb

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

  1. 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, [...].
  2. to sit upon to brood or hatch
  3. to abide in; to inhabit
  4. (figuratively) to brood over
  5. (figuratively) to weigh upon; to be a burden to
  6. to settle on; to attach to
Conjugation
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   Conjugation of incubō (first conjugation, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present incubō incubās incubat incubāmus incubātis incubant
imperfect incubābam incubābās incubābat incubābāmus incubābātis incubābant
future incubābō incubābis incubābit incubābimus incubābitis incubābunt
perfect incubuī incubuistī incubuit incubuimus incubuistis incubuērunt,
incubuēre
pluperfect incubueram incubuerās incubuerat incubuerāmus incubuerātis incubuerant
future perfect incubuerō incubueris incubuerit incubuerimus incubueritis incubuerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present incubem incubēs incubet incubēmus incubētis incubent
imperfect incubārem incubārēs incubāret incubārēmus incubārētis incubārent
perfect incubuerim incubuerīs incubuerit incubuerīmus incubuerītis incubuerint
pluperfect incubuissem incubuissēs incubuisset incubuissēmus incubuissētis incubuissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present incubā incubāte
future incubātō incubātō incubātōte incubantō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives incubāre incubuisse incubitūrum esse
participles incubāns incubitūrus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
incubandī incubandō incubandum incubandō incubitum incubitū
Descendants
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  • Catalan: incubar
  • English: incubate
  • French: incuber
  • Italian: incubare
  • Portuguese: incubar
  • Romanian: incuba
  • Spanish: incubar

References

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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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incubō m (genitive incubōnis); third declension

  1. one who lies upon something
  2. a spirit who watches over buried treasure
  3. incubus, nightmare
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative incubō incubōnēs
Genitive incubōnis incubōnum
Dative incubōnī incubōnibus
Accusative incubōnem incubōnēs
Ablative incubōne incubōnibus
Vocative incubō incubōnēs
Synonyms
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References

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

Etymology 3

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Regularly declined forms of incubus.

Noun

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incubō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of incubus
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Portuguese

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Verb

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incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Spanish

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Verb

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incubo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar