glubo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to split”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡluː.boː/, [ˈɡɫ̪uːboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlu.bo/, [ˈɡluːbo]

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, Cato the Elder, De Agricultura 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.

2. (vulgar) 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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		glūbere	glūpsisse	glū̆ptūrum esse	glūbī	glū̆ptum esse	glū̆ptum īrī
participles		glūbēns	—	glū̆ptūrus	—	glū̆ptus	glūbendus, glūbundus
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)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN