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“brood” in Latin
incubōto lie, sit, or settle in, on or upon; recline; to sit upon to brood or hatch; to abide in; to inhabitōvumegg (approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the emexclūdōto shut out; cut off, remove, separate from something; to except, exclude; to hinder, preventincŭbātĭoa lying upon eggsincŭbĭtusa lying uponpullātĭoa hatchingfētūrabearing of young, breeding; offspring, broodfētusa bearing, birth, bringing forth; offspring, young, progeny; fruit, product; bearing, producesubolēsshoot, sucker; offspring, race, progeny; baby, infant, childprōgeniēsrace, family, progeny, lineage, descent
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
brood v.
incubare (with or without ovis or ova). To be wont to brood, incubitare (e.g., in cellis). To brood (i. e., hatch young), pullos ex ovis excindere, pullos excludere, excludere. A brooding, incubatio, incubitus; pullatio. To brood over (i. e., cover with the wings), fovere pennis.
Fig., night broods upon the sea, nox incubat ponto. He broods over his griefs, fovet suos dolores. The miser broods upon his locked-up store, avarus clausis thesauris incubat. To brood over (devise, concoct, etc.), in animo agitare; comminisci, moliri, machinari, coquere, concoquere.
brood s.
fetura, fetus, suboles, progenies; pulli, pullities. Doves have eight broods a year, columbae octiea anno pullos educant.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for brood?
- The usual Latin words for “brood” are incubō, ōvum, exclūdō; also incŭbātĭo, incŭbĭtus, pullātĭo. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.