concubina

Italian

Noun

concubina f (plural concubine)

1. concubine

See also

• concubino

Latin

Etymology

From concumbō (“I lie with”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.kuˈbiː.na/, [kɔŋkʊˈbiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.kuˈbi.na/, [koŋkuˈbiːnä]

Noun

concubīna f (genitive concubīnae); first declension

1. concubine

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	concubīna	concubīnae
Genitive	concubīnae	concubīnārum
Dative	concubīnae	concubīnīs
Accusative	concubīnam	concubīnās
Ablative	concubīnā	concubīnīs
Vocative	concubīna	concubīnae

Descendants

• → English: concubine
• → French: concubine

References

• “concubina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concubina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• concubina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• concubina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “concubina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “concubina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.kuˈbĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.kuˈbĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.kuˈbi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõ.kuˈbi.nɐ/ [kõ.kuˈβi.nɐ]

• Hyphenation: con‧cu‧bi‧na

Noun

concubina f (plural concubinas)

1. concubine (a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife)

   Synonyms: amásia, barregã

Related terms

• concubinato

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konkuˈbina/ [kõŋ.kuˈβ̞i.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: con‧cu‧bi‧na

Noun

concubina f (plural concubinas, masculine concubino, masculine plural concubinos)

1. concubine

Related terms

• concubinario
• concubinato

 

Further reading

• “concubino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014