incubo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofincubar

Borrowed fromLate Latinincubus.

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

incubo m (pluralincubi)

1. nightmare,incubus

   Mi sono risvegliato da unincubo.

   I woke from anightmare.

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

incubo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofincubare

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

FromProto-Italic*enkubāō, Bysurface analysis,in- +‎cubō(“I lie down”).

incubō (present infinitiveincubāre,perfect activeincubuī,supineincubitum);first conjugation, nopassive

2. tolie,sit, orsettlein,on orupon;recline
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.82-83:

     Sōla domō maeret vacuā, strātīsque relictīs /incubat, [...].

     Alone in the empty house, [Dido] mourns, andlies down upon the bedcovers [he has] abandoned, [...].

3. tosit upon tobrood orhatch
4. toabide in; toinhabit
5. (figuratively) tobrood over
6. (figuratively) toweigh upon; to be aburden to
7. tosettle on; toattach to

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

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

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

incubō m (genitiveincubōnis);third declension

1. one wholies upon something
2. aspirit who watches overburied treasure
3. incubus,nightmare

Third-declension noun.

• (incubus, nightmare):incubitor,incubus

• “incŭbo²”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incubo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incubo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• incubo inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Regularly declined forms ofincubus.

incubō m

1. dative/ablativesingular ofincubus

incubo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofincubar

incubo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofincubar