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
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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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