lucubrare

== Italian == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Classical Latin lūcubrāre (“to work at night or by candlelight or lamplight”), from Proto-Italic *lewk-o-dʰro-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lu.kuˈbra.re/ Rhymes: -are Hyphenation: lu‧cu‧brà‧re === Verb === lucubràre (first-person singular present lùcubro, first-person singular past historic lucubrài, past participle lucubràto, auxiliary avére) (literary, ambitransitive) to write by candlelight (or lamplight) (literary, ambitransitive, transferred sense) to carefully elaborate or develop (e.g. a thought) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== elucubrare === References === “lucubrare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 9 libe–med, UTET, 1975, page 260a == Latin == === Verb === lūcubrāre inflection of lūcubrō: present active infinitive second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative == Spanish == === Verb === lucubrare first/third-person singular future subjunctive of lucubrar