succuba
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin succuba, from succubō (“to lie under”).
Noun
[edit]succuba (plural succubas or succubae)
- A female demon or fiend; a succubus.
- a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates
- Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:
- In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.
- a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates
Translations
[edit]a female demon or fiend — see succubus
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]succuba
Noun
[edit]succuba f (plural succube)
- succubus (female)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From succubō (“I lie under”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsuk.ku.ba/, [ˈs̠ʊkːʊbä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsuk.ku.ba/, [ˈsukːubä]
Noun
[edit]succuba f (genitive succubae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | succuba | succubae |
genitive | succubae | succubārum |
dative | succubae | succubīs |
accusative | succubam | succubās |
ablative | succubā | succubīs |
vocative | succuba | succubae |
References
[edit]- “succuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- succuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]succuba c
Declension
[edit]Declension of succuba
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