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English

Alternative forms

• vampyre (archaic)

Etymology

From French vampire, from German Vampir, from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmp?r (said to be an alteration of a term *upir), from Proto-Slavic *?pyr?. Compare Russian ?????? (upýr?), Polish upiór, etc. Doublet of oupire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væm.pa?.?(?)/

Noun

vampire (plural vampires)

1. A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living. [from earlier 18th c.]

   Synonyms: nosferatu, lamia, cadaver sanguine

2. (colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
3. A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) [from later 18th c.]

   Synonym: vampire bat

4. (figuratively, derogatory) A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
5. (dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.
   • 2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (page 4)

     "What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.

6. (US, slang) A medical technician who works with patients' blood.
   • 2000, Tracie Peterson, Colorado Wings (page 373)

     "I draw blood from patients, and then I take it back to the lab and analyze it. Sometimes, the vampires do all the sticks, that is to say the lab assistants do all the blood collections." He grinned. "We have our own language at the lab."

Synonyms

• (blood drinker): hemovore, hematophagous

Derived terms

Related terms

• vamp

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ???????????? (bhêmpayar)
• ? Irish: vaimpír
• ? Japanese: ?????? (vanpaia), ????? (banpaia)
• ? Marathi: ?????????? (vh?mp?yar)
• ? Thai: ??????? (w?m-paai)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: bhampair
• ? Swahili: vampiri
• ? Welsh: fampir

Translations

Verb

vampire (third-person singular simple present vampires, present participle vampiring, simple past and past participle vampired)

1. (transitive, figuratively) To drain of energy or resources.

See also

• werewolf
• bloodsucker
• hemovore
• Vampire (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Common vampire bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• The meaning of the word "vampire"

References

Anagrams

• vampier

Esperanto

Etymology

vampiro (“vampire”) +? -e

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vam?pire/

Adverb

vampire

1. vampirically

Related terms

• vampira (“vampiric”)
• vampiro (“vampire”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.pi?/

Noun

vampire m (plural vampires)

1. vampire

Derived terms

• vampirique
• vampiriser

Descendants

• ? Armenian: ?????? (vampir)
• ? Asturian: vampiru
• ? Belarusian: ?????? (vampir)
• ? Catalan: vampir
• ? Czech: vampýr
• ? English: vampire (see there for further descendants)
• ? Galician: vampiro
• ? Georgian: ??????? (vam?iri)
• ? Greek: ?????? (vampír)
• ? Italian: vampiro
• ? Malagasy: vampira
• ? Occitan: vampire
• ? Romanian: vampir
• ? Russian: ?????? (vampir) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Slovak: vampír
• ? Spanish: vampiro, vampira
  • ? Basque: banpiro
  • ? Cebuano: bampira
  • ? Tagalog: bampira
  • ? Waray-Waray: bampira
• ? Ottoman Turkish: ??????? (vampir)
  • Turkish: vampir
• ? Ukrainian: ?????? (vampir)

Further reading

• “vampire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

vampire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vampirar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vampirar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vampirar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vampirar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vam?pi.re]

Noun

vampire f pl

1. plural of vampir?

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)

1. (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

2. 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  […] .

3. (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.

4. (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)

1. An incubus, evil spirit
2. A nightmare, horrible dream
3. 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

1. (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