The corpus record — Latin

accŭbĭtus

accŭbĭtus · m

A reclining at table

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What it meant

accŭbĭtus — Lewis & Short

accŭbĭtus, ūs, m., = accubitio.

I A reclining at table, Stat. Ach. 1, 110 (quoted by Prisc. 863 P.); id. Theb. 1, 714; and perh. also Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 20, 11, 19.—

II Per meton., a couch, Vulg. Cant. 1, 11; a place on a couch, ib. Luc. 14, 7.

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.