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noun · femininethird declension

lūcubrātiō

lūcubrātiō f (genitive lūcubrātiōnis)
Classical[ɫuː.kʊˈbraː.ti.oː]Ecclesiastical[lu.kuˈbrat.t͡si.o]

Meaning

  1. The act of working by night, candlelight or lamplight; lucubration, nocturnal study, night work.
  2. Anything made, produced or composed at night, candlelight or lamplight; lucubration, night work.

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativelūcubrātiōlūcubrātiōnēs
genitivelūcubrātiōnislūcubrātiōnum
dativelūcubrātiōnīlūcubrātiōnibus
accusativelūcubrātiōnemlūcubrātiōnēs
ablativelūcubrātiōnelūcubrātiōnibus
vocativelūcubrātiōlūcubrātiōnēs

lūcū^brātĭo, ōnis, f. lucubro,
I. a working by lamp-light, night-work, nocturnal study, lucubration.
I. Lit.: per hiemem lucubratione haec facito, Cato, R. R. 37: lucubrationes detraxi, Cic. Div. 2, 68, 142: ista sunt tota commenticia, vix digna lucubratione anicularum, hardly worth the evening gossip of old women, id. N. D. 1, 34, 94: cannabis lucubrationibus decorticata purgatur, Plin. 19, 9, 56, § 174: est enim lucubratio, quoties ad eam integri ac refecti venimus, optimum secreti genus, Quint. 10, 3, 27: et vigilandae noctes, et fuligo lucubrationum bibenda, id. 11, 3, 23. —
II. Transf., any thing done or composed at night, night-work, lucubration: perire lucubrationem meam nolui, i. e. epistolam noctu scriptam, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 1.—As title of a work by Bibaculus, Plin. praef. § 24.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin lūcubrātiō From lūcubrō (“work by night, candlelight or lamplight; compose by night, candlelight or lamplight”) + -tiō.

Descendants
  • Englishlucubration
  • Italianlucubrazione
  • Portugueselucubração
  • Spanishlucubración

In English words that came into English from lūcubrātiō

  • lucubrationlūcubrātiō

Quick answers

What does lūcubrātiō mean in Latin?
lūcubrātiō, a noun, means “The act of working by night, candlelight or lamplight; lucubration, nocturnal study, night work.; Anything made, produced or composed at night, candlelight or lamplight”.
What is the genitive of lūcubrātiō?
The genitive singular is lūcubrātiōnis. lūcubrātiō is feminine, third declension.
How do you pronounce lūcubrātiō?
In classical Latin, [ɫuː.kʊˈbraː.ti.oː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [lu.kuˈbrat.t͡si.o].