单词 | lucubrate |
释义 | lucubrate —lucubrator, n. —lucubratory /looh kyooh"breuh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/, adj. /looh"kyoo brayt'/, v.i. , lucubrated, lucubrating. 1. to work, write, or study laboriously, esp. at night. 2. to write learnedly. [1615-25; < L lucubratus, ptp. of lucubrare to work by artificial light, equiv. to lucu-, var. (before labials) of luci-, comb. form of lucere to shine + -br(um) instrumental suffix + -a- theme vowel + -tus ptp. suffix] |
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