concumbo Latin · revision 33028

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la cubō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concumbō''' (present infinitive concumbere, perfect active concubuī, supine concubitum); third conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|*cumbō]], a form of [[m|la|cubō|t=to lie]] also seen in the compounds [[m|la|accumbō]], [[m|la|incumbō]] and [[m|la|prōcumbō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence has someone ask whether people say a woman slept with him two months later.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to lie together for sexual intercourse, with ''cum'' or the dative.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it in rhetorical and philosophical works, and Ovid of Egeria lying with Numa.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it absent from Virgil, Horace and Livy, but frequent in Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid.^(TLL) Propertius also uses it literally of cattle lying down together, and Juvenal has people make love in Greek.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Augustine discusses a woman overpowered who consents to the man with no will of her own.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The present forms are rare, the perfect common.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to lie with.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To lie with, sleep with, have sexual [[m|en|intercourse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To lie down together.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[concubitus]]

+ * [[concubius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cubo|alt=cubō]]

+ * [[concubina]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}