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recubo

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈrɛ.kʊ.boː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.ku.bo][1]

Forms

recubō (present infinitive recubāre, perfect active recubāvī, supine recubātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin re- + cubō (“to lie down”).[2][1][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lucretius addresses the goddess who pours herself around one reclining on her holy body.[4]

Semantic evolution

It is to lie at ease, lie back, recline: Cicero uses it once, Tibullus of reclining on a Tyrian couch, and Virgil of a sow lying on the ground.[4][2] Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.[4] The OLD treats the perfect recubuī under recumbō.[2] Church Latin glosses it to recline.[5]

Timeline

  • 96–55 BC – Lucretius of reclining.[4]
  • 81–43 BC – Cicero.[4]
  • 70–19 BC – Virgil of a sow lying on the ground.[4]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To lie at ease, lie back, recline.[2][4][1][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson