incubo

See also: incubò, incubó, and íncubo

Catalan

Verb

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin incubus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

incubo m (plural incubi)

1. nightmare, incubus

   Mi sono risvegliato da un incubo.

   I woke from a nightmare.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Verb

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubare

Latin

FWOTD – 14 November 2024

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ku.boː/, [ˈɪŋkʊboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ku.bo/, [ˈiŋkubo]

Etymology 1

From in- +‎ cubō (“I lie down”).

Verb

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

2. 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, [...].

3. to sit upon to brood or hatch
4. to abide in; to inhabit
5. (figuratively) to brood over
6. (figuratively) to weigh upon; to be a burden to
7. to settle on; to attach to

Conjugation

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

• Catalan: incubar
• English: incubate
• French: incuber
• Italian: incubare
• Portuguese: incubar
• Romanian: incuba
• Spanish: incubar

References

• “incŭbo¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

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

Noun

incubō m (genitive incubōnis); third declension

1. one who lies upon something
2. a spirit who watches over buried treasure
3. incubus, nightmare

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	incubō	incubōnēs
genitive	incubōnis	incubōnum
dative	incubōnī	incubōnibus
accusative	incubōnem	incubōnēs
ablative	incubōne	incubōnibus
vocative	incubō	incubōnēs

Synonyms

• (incubus, nightmare): incubitor, incubus

References

• “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

Regularly declined forms of incubus.

Noun

incubō m

1. dative/ablative singular of incubus

Related terms

• cubiculāris
• cubiculārius
• cubiculum
• cubīle
• cubital
• cubitō
• cubitum
• cubō
• incubus

Portuguese

Verb

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar

Spanish

Verb

incubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of incubar