incubus
See also: Incubus
English
Etymology
From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubo (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubāre (“to lie upon, to hatch”), from in- (“on”) + cubāre (“to lie”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
incubus (plural incubi or incubuses)
- (mediaeval folklore) An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
- Antonym: succubus
- Hypernyms: evil spirit, spirit
- A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
- Synonym: nightmare
- Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, vol. I, New York 2001, p.249:
- it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […] .
- (by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 132-3:
- Notions of civic virtue were at that moment changing, in ways which would make of Louis's alleged vices an incubus on the back of the monarchy.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- (entomology) One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
Translations
an evil spirit
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a nightmare
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oppressive thing or person; a burden
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See also
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubo (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubare (“to lie upon, to hatch”).
Noun
incubus m (plural incubussen or incubi, diminutive incubusje n)
Synonyms
- (nightmare) nachtmerrie
See also
- succubus m
Latin
Etymology
From incubō¹ (“I lie upon”, “I brood over”, “I am a burden to”), perhaps via an alteration of the Classical incubō² (“incubus”, “nightmare”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈin.ku.bus/, [ˈɪŋkʊbʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ku.bus/, [ˈiŋkubus]
Noun
incubus m (genitive incubī); second declension
- (Late Latin) the nightmare, incubus
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Augustine of Hippo to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Isidore of Seville to this entry?)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | incubus | incubī |
Genitive | incubī | incubōrum |
Dative | incubō | incubīs |
Accusative | incubum | incubōs |
Ablative | incubō | incubīs |
Vocative | incube | incubī |
Synonyms
Descendants
- Dutch: incubus
- English: incubus
- French: incube
- German: Incubus
- Italian: incubo
- Portuguese: íncubo
- Russian: инку́б (inkúb)
- Spanish: incubo
References
- “incŭbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- INCUBI 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)
- incŭbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 801/1.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “incubo (genet. -onis), incubus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 524/2
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