accumbo

• adcumbō

From ad- +‎ *cumbō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [akˈkʊm.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [akˈkum.bo]

accumbō (present infinitive accumbere, perfect active accubuī, supine accubitum); third conjugation

1. (ambitransitive) to recline at a meal or dinner, on a Roman lectus [with ablative; or with in and ablative; in addition, (rare) with accusative]

   Synonyms: accubitō, accubō

   in epulō accumbere ― to recline at a meal, partake of a dinner

   • 70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 1.66:

     Tum ille, ut aliquid responderet, negavit moris esse Graecorum ut in convivio virorum accumberent mulieres.

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 28.18:

     […] ; eodem etiam lecto Scipio atque Hasdrubal quia ita cordi erat regi accubuerunt.

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2. (absolute, intransitive) to dine, have a meal in the Roman fashion
   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 768–769:

     Hoc age, accumbe. Hunc diem suavem
     meum natalem agitemus amoenum. Date aquam manibus, apponite mensam.

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   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro 17:

     […] : huc [castellum Blucium] te e balneo, prius quam accumberes, ducere volebat; […]

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3. (very rare, pre-classical, intransitive) to lie somewhere
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 326:

     Cave modo, ne prius in via accumbas,
     quam illi, ubi lectus est stratus, concumbimus.

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4. (very rare, transitive) to lie with, beside [with dative; or with accusative];
   • c. 50 BCE – 19 BCE, Albius Tibullus, Elegiae 1.9.75:

     Huic tamen accubuit noster puer: hunc ego credam
     cum trucibus uenerem iungere posse feris.

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   1. (Plautine) especially: scortum accumbere, to sleep with a prostitute
      • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 475–476:

        Prandi, potavi, scortum accubui, apstuli
        hanc, quoius heres numquam erit post hunc diem.

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      • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 1141–1142:

        Prandi perbene,
        potavi atque accubui scortum, pallam et aurum hoc <abstuli>.

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      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 68–72:

        Vbi ego capiam pro machaera turturem, […] ,ubi mihi pro equo lectus detur, scortum pro scuto accu<m>bet?

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      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 1188–1189:

        Quod di dant boni cave culpa tua amissis:
        dimidium auri datur: accipias, potesque et scortum accumbas.

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• accumbēns

• → English: accumb
• → Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌺𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (anakumbjan)
• → Greek: ακουμπώ (akoumpó)

• “accumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “accumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “accumbo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.