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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
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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:
banshee
English
Alternative forms
- banshie (dated)
- benshee (obsolete)
Etymology
From Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæn??i?/, /?bæn?i?/
Noun
banshee (plural banshees)
- (Irish folklore) A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.
- (derogatory) A noisy or ill-tempered woman.
Usage notes
- A banshee was originally merely a fairy woman who sang a caoineadh (lament) for recently-deceased members of certain families. Translations of Irish works into English made a distinction between the banshee and other fairy folk that the original language and original stories do not seem to have, but from which sprung the current image of the banshee.
Descendants
Translations
See also
- sidhe
Anagrams
- has-been, shabeen, shebean
Portuguese
Noun
banshee f (plural banshees)
- (Irish folklore) banshee (a female spirit who warns of impending death)
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