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incubus
English
Etymology
From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incub? (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incub?re (“to lie upon, to hatch”), from in- (“on”) + cub?re (“to lie down”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /???.kj?.b?s/, /??n.kj?.b?s/
- Homophone: incubous
Noun
incubus (plural incubi or incubuses)
- (mediaeval folklore) An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
- Antonym: succubus
- Hypernyms: evil spirit, spirit
- A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
- Synonym: nightmare
- , vol. I, New York 2001, p.249:
- it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […] .
- (by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 132-3:
- Notions of civic virtue were at that moment changing, in ways which would make of Louis's alleged vices an incubus on the back of the monarchy.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- (entomology) One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily Aphidiinae.
Translations
See also
- incubous
- succubus
Further reading
- incubus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubo (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubare (“to lie upon, to hatch”).
Noun
incubus m (plural incubussen or incubi, diminutive incubusje n)
- An incubus, evil spirit
- A nightmare, horrible dream
- A burden, obsession, yoke
Synonyms
- (nightmare) nachtmerrie
See also
- succubus m
Latin
Etymology
From incub?¹ (“I lie upon”, “I brood over”, “I am a burden to”), perhaps via an alteration of the Classical incub?² (“incubus”, “nightmare”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?in.ku.bus/, [???k?b?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?in.ku.bus/, [?i?kubus]
Noun
incubus m (genitive incub?); second declension
- (Late Latin) the nightmare, incubus
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Augustine of Hippo to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Isidore of Seville to this entry?)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (nightmare, incubus): incubitor, incub?
Descendants
- Dutch: incubus
- English: incubus
- French: incube
- German: Incubus
- Italian: incubo
- Portuguese: íncubo
- Russian: ?????? (inkúb)
- Spanish: incubo
References
- inc?bus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- INCUBI in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- inc?bus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 801/1
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “incubo (genet. -onis), incubus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 524/2
incubus From the web:
aggravated
English
Verb
aggravated
- simple past tense and past participle of aggravate
Derived terms
- aggravatedly
Adjective
aggravated (comparative more aggravated, superlative most aggravated)
- Having been the subject of aggravation; frustrated and angry.
Synonyms
- aggro
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