succubaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

succuba (複数形 succubas または succubae)

1. A female demon or fiend; a succubus.
   • a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates

     Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:

     In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.

Latin

語源

From succubō (“I lie under”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsuk.ku.ba/, [ˈs̠ʊkːʊbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsuk.ku.ba/, [ˈsukːubä]

名詞

succuba f (genitive succubae); first declension

1. strumpet
2. succubus

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• “succuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• succuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette