succubus
英語
編輯詞源
編輯源自中古英語(基於incubus m),源自晚期拉丁語 succuba f (「女夢魔」),源自拉丁語 succubare (「躺在……下」),源自sub- (「下」) + cubare (「躺下」),源自原始印歐語 *keu(b) (「轉,彎」)。
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編輯名詞
編輯succubus (複數 succubi 或 succubuses)
- (傳說生物) 女魅魔,女夢魔(與男性性交以汲取能量)
- 反義詞:incubus
- 1977 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
- When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi, take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera.
- 娼妓