accubo Latin · revision 32640

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la cubō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈak.kʊ.boː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈak.ku.bo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''accubō''' (present infinitive accubāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adcubō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|cubō|t2=to lie down]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, of lying at table: a wife is told she may see her husband reclining with a garland, his arms around his mistress.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to lie or recline, at table, in bed or at rest, and to lie beside someone: in Plautus two guards always lie by a girl.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus also uses it of a dog lying quietly.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder has miners lying prone as they dig for a vein, and Virgil has the greatest of the Furies reclining close by.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things it is to lie or be situated by something, as a sacred grove with its shade in Virgil.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius uses it with an object, of a husband lying on a bed.^(OLD 2012) The perfect ⟨accubuī⟩ belongs to [[accumbo|alt=accumbō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to lie down, recline.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of reclining at table and of guards lying by a girl.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a Fury reclining and of a grove.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of miners lying prone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of lying on a bed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To lie, [[m|en|recline]] at table; to dine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To lie in bed or at rest; to lie beside someone; of animals, to lie.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things, to lie by, be situated near.^(OLD 2012)

+ # With an object, to lie on.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[accubātiō]]

+ * [[accubitālia]]

+ * [[accubitiō]]

+ * [[accubitōrius]]

+ * [[accubitum]]

+ * [[accubitus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[accubitātiō]]

+ * [[dēcubō]]

+ * [[excubō]]

+ * [[incubō]]

+ * [[occubō]]

+ * [[prōcubō]]

+ * [[recubō]]

+ * [[sēcubō]]

+ * [[succubō]]

+ * [[supercubō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}