Noun: succuba
| Singular | succuba |
| Plural | succubas; succubae |
Sample Sentences
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a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates
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Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.
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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:]
Nouns inflected like succuba
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin succuba, from succubō (“to lie under”). See: Latin Nouns '
succuba'.