The corpus record — Latin

recubo

recubo · v. n

to lie upon the back; to lie back

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-cŭbo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-cŭbo, āre, v. n.,

I to lie upon the back; to lie back, recline (rare but class.): hunc tu, diva, tuo recubantem corpore sancto Circumfusa super, Lucr. 1, 38; * Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 63: Tyrio recubare toro, Tib. 1, 2, 75: sus solo, Verg. A. 3, 392; 8, 45: antro, id. ib. 8, 297: in antro, id. ib. 6, 418: sub tegmine fagi, id. E. 1, 1: sub quā arbore, Ov. A. A. 2, 342; Isid. 14, 4, 11; Val. Fl. 7, 523.

In the wild

6 of 41 attestations shown.

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.