The corpus record — Latin

accubitio

accubitio · f

A lying

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Where it lives

De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

accŭbĭtĭo — Lewis & Short

accŭbĭtĭo, ōnis, f.accubo.

I A lying or reclining, esp. at meals (in the Rom. manner, on the triclinium or accubitum): accubitio epularis amicorum, Cic. de Sen. 13, 45; cf. Non. 193, 30; so Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 94 (but in Off. 1, 35, 128, the MSS. give accubatio).—

II Concr., a couch, Lampr. Sev. 34; cf. accubitatio.

In the wild

accubitio Cicero, De Officiis 1.128.p1
accubitionem Cicero, De Senectute 45
accubitionum Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 34
accubitio Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.94.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.