succuba

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
18
Letters
7

Definition of succuba

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”

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Etymology

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

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