Latin

Verb

lūcubrō ‎(present infinitive lūcubrāre, perfect active lūcubrāvī, supine lūcubrātum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive) I work at night, candlelight or lamplight, lucubrate.
2. (transitive) I make, produce or compose at night, candlelight or lamplight.

Usage notes

• In ordinary Classical Latin pronunciation, when br co-occur intervocalically at a syllabic boundary (denoted in pronunciatory transcriptions by <.>), both consonants are considered to belong to the latter syllable; if the former syllable contains only a short vowel (and not a long vowel or a diphthong), then it is a light syllable. Where the two syllables under consideration are a word's penult and antepenult, this has a bearing on stress, because a word whose penult is a heavy syllable is stressed on that syllable, whereas one whose penult is a light syllable is stressed on the antepenult instead. In poetic usage, where syllabic weight and stress are important for metrical reasons, writers sometimes regard the b in such a sequence as belonging to the former syllable; in this case, doing so alters the word's stress. For more words whose stress can be varied poetically, see their category.

Inflection

Derived terms

• ēlūcubrō
• lūcubrātiō
• lūcubrātōrius
• lūcubrātus

Related terms

• lūceō
• lūcubrātiuncula
• lūx

Descendants

References

• lucubro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lucubro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lucubro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to work by night, burn the midnight oil: lucubrare (Liv. 1. 57)