glubo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *glouβō, from Proto-Indo-European *gléwbʰeti.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɫuː.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡluː.bo]

Verb

glūbō (present infinitive glūbere, perfect active glūpsī, supine glū̆ptum); third conjugation (uncommon)

1. (literally) to strip the bark from a tree, to peel, to shuck
   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Marcus Porcius Cato, De agri cultura 33:

     Salictum suo tempore caedito, glubito, arteque alligato.

     Cut down any willow at its due time, strip its bark, and bind the bark well.

   • 1877, G. F. H. Sykes, Grammatical Exercises in Latin Prose Composition:

     Filia mihi haec poma glupsit.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (Vulgar Latin) to peel back the foreskin of, to masturbate
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, 58, (or "magnanimos Remi nepotes" "the brave grandsons of Remus"):

     Nunc in quadriviis et angiportis
     glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes.

     Now in the crossroads and alleyways
     she masturbates the grandsons of brave Remus.

   • 1843, Wilhelm Hertzberg, Sex. Aurelii Propertii Elegiarum libri quattuor. [...] 34:

     Quid de Lesbia dicam, quae, quamvis Catulli chartis immortalis facta, in angiportis glupsit magnanimos Remi nepotes (cf. Cat. LVIII.), quid de Lycoride, Galli amica (Prop. El. II, 34, 91.), cuius verum nomen Cytheridem fuisse Servius docet (ad Virg. Bucc. X, 1.), Volumnii Eutrapeli liberta (de qua cf. Cic. Phil. II, 24. ad Attic. X, 10. 16. ad Div. IX, 26. Plut. vit. Ant. c. 9. Plin. Nat. Hist. VIII, 16.), mima simul et meretrice?

     What shall I say of Lesbia, who, ever so much made immortal by Catullus's writings, peeled/masturbated in the alleys the brave grandsons of Remus (cf. Cat. LVIII.), what of Lycoris, mistress of Gallus (Prop. El. II, 34, 91.), whose true name, Servius teaches, was Cytheris (ad Virg. Bucc. X, 1.), a freedwoman of Volumnius Eutrapelus (on which cf. Cic. Phil. II, 24. ad Attic. X, 10. 16. ad Div. IX, 26. Plut. vit. Ant. c. 9. Plin. Nat. Hist. VIII, 16.), a mime actress and at the same time a prostitute?

Conjugation

   Conjugation of glūbō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	glūbō		glūbis		glūbit		glūbimus		glūbitis		glūbunt
	imperfect	glūbēbam		glūbēbās		glūbēbat		glūbēbāmus		glūbēbātis		glūbēbant
	future	glūbam		glūbēs		glūbet		glūbēmus		glūbētis		glūbent
	perfect	glūpsī		glūpsistī		glūpsit		glūpsimus		glūpsistis		glūpsērunt, glūpsēre
	pluperfect	glūpseram		glūpserās		glūpserat		glūpserāmus		glūpserātis		glūpserant
	future perfect	glūpserō		glūpseris		glūpserit		glūpserimus		glūpseritis		glūpserint
passive	present	glūbor		glūberis, glūbere		glūbitur		glūbimur		glūbiminī		glūbuntur
	imperfect	glūbēbar		glūbēbāris, glūbēbāre		glūbēbātur		glūbēbāmur		glūbēbāminī		glūbēbantur
	future	glūbar		glūbēris, glūbēre		glūbētur		glūbēmur		glūbēminī		glūbentur
	perfect	glū̆ptus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	glū̆ptus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	glū̆ptus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	glūbam		glūbās		glūbat		glūbāmus		glūbātis		glūbant
	imperfect	glūberem		glūberēs		glūberet		glūberēmus		glūberētis		glūberent
	perfect	glūpserim		glūpserīs		glūpserit		glūpserīmus		glūpserītis		glūpserint
	pluperfect	glūpsissem		glūpsissēs		glūpsisset		glūpsissēmus		glūpsissētis		glūpsissent
passive	present	glūbar		glūbāris, glūbāre		glūbātur		glūbāmur		glūbāminī		glūbantur
	imperfect	glūberer		glūberēris, glūberēre		glūberētur		glūberēmur		glūberēminī		glūberentur
	perfect	glū̆ptus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	glū̆ptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		glūbe		—		—		glūbite		—
	future	—		glūbitō		glūbitō		—		glūbitōte		glūbuntō
passive	present	—		glūbere		—		—		glūbiminī		—
	future	—		glūbitor		glūbitor		—		—		glūbuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		glūbere			glūbī			glūbēns			—
future		glū̆ptūrum esse			glū̆ptum īrī			glū̆ptūrus			glūbendus, glūbundus
perfect		glūpsisse			glū̆ptum esse			—			glū̆ptus
future perfect		—			glū̆ptum fore			—			—
perfect potential		glū̆ptūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		glūbendī		glūbendō		glūbendum		glūbendō		glū̆ptum		glū̆ptū

• No perfect stem is attested in Classical Latin; nevertheless, some grammars and dictionaries list a perfect stem in glūps- (compare scrībō, perfect stem scrīps- and nūbō, perfect stem nūps-) and at least one form built on this stem has been used in New Latin (see Hertzberg 1843 and Sykes 1877, quoted above). The supine stem is attested once for the prefixed derivative dēglūbō, but not in a way that clarifies the hidden quantity of the vowel (which could be long by analogy with the present stem, but could conceivably be short if descended from an old zero-grade form *glubʰto-).

Synonyms

• exuō
• spoliō

Derived terms

• dēglūbō

Further reading

• “glubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “glubo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 266