accubo
Latin
Alternative forms
- adcubō
Etymology
From ad- + cubō (“lie down”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈak.ku.boː/, [ˈak.kʊ.boː]
Verb
accubō (present infinitive accubāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine forms
- I lie or recline by, with, on or near something; relax.
- c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3:
- […] qui in lupanari accubat.
- […] who relaxes in the brothel.
- […] qui in lupanari accubat.
- (intransitive, by extension) I recline at a table.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of accubo (first conjugation, defective, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | accubō | accubās | accubat | accubāmus | accubātis | accubant |
| imperfect | accubābam | accubābās | accubābat | accubābāmus | accubābātis | accubābant | |
| future | accubābō | accubābis | accubābit | accubābimus | accubābitis | accubābunt | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | accubem | accubēs | accubet | accubēmus | accubētis | accubent |
| imperfect | accubārem | accubārēs | accubāret | accubārēmus | accubārētis | accubārent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | accubā | — | — | accubāte | — |
| future | — | accubātō | accubātō | — | accubātōte | accubantō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | accubāre | — | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | accubāns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| accubāre | accubandī | accubandō | accubandum | — | — | ||
Synonyms
- (I recline at a table): accubitō, accumbō
Derived terms
- accubātiō
- accubitālia
- accubitiō
- accubitōrius
- accubitum
- accubitus
- accubuō
Related terms
- accubitātiō
- dēcubō
- excubō
- incubō
- occubō
- prōcubō
- recubō
- sēcubō
- succubō
- supercubō
Descendants
- Galician: acougar
References
- accubo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accubo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette