lubet
English
Noun
lubet
- (countable) pleasure.
- 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 295:
- You must believe me that on this street, neither in the houses which line it, nor the cobblestones which pave it, nor the elevated structure which cuts it atwain, neither in any creature that bears a name and lives thereon, neither in any animal, bird or insect passing through it to slaughter or already slaughtered, is there hope of “lubet,” “sublimate” or “abominate.”
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *luβet, (from Proto-Italic *luβēō (“to desire”)), from Proto-Indo-European *lubʰ-eh₁-(ye)-ti (stative), from *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.bet/, [ˈɫ̪ʊbɛt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.bet/, [ˈluːbet̪]
Verb
lubet (present infinitive lubēre, perfect active lubuit or lubitum est); second conjugation, no passive
- Alternative form of libet (the most conservative version)
Conjugation
| Conjugation of lubet (second conjugation, mostly impersonal, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | lubet | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | lubēbat | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | lubēbit | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | lubuit, lubitum est |
— | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | lubuerat, lubitum erat |
— | — | — | |
| future perfect | — | — | lubuerit, lubitum erit |
— | — | — | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | lubeat | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | lubēret | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | lubuerit, lubitum sit |
— | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | lubuisset, lubitum esset |
— | — | lubuissent | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | lubēre | lubuisse, lubitum esse |
— | — | — | — | |
| participles | lubēns | lubitum | — | — | — | — | |
References
- “lubet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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