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succuba

succuba noun: a female demon or fiend; a succubus.

Noun

succuba (plural succubas or succubae)

  1. A female demon or fiend; a succubus.
    • a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates
      Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.
    • In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19

Forms of succuba

pluralsuccubas
pluralsuccubae

Origin of succuba

From Latin succuba, from succubō (“to lie under”).

Questions about succuba

What does succuba mean?
Succuba means a female demon or fiend; a succubus.
What part of speech is succuba?
Succuba is a noun.
What is the plural of succuba?
The plural of succuba is succubas.

Words near succuba in the dictionary

  1. succrescence
  2. succrescent
  3. succs
  4. succsex
  5. succsexful
  6. succuba
  7. succubae
  8. succubas
  9. succubation
  10. succubi
  11. succubine

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