succuba

From Latin succumbere (“to lie under”).

succuba (plural succubas or succubae)

1. A female demon or fiend; a succubus.
   • The Mirror for Magistrates

     Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:

     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.

succuba

1. feminine singular of succubo

succuba f (plural succube)

1. succubus (female)

From Latin succuba.

succuba c

1. succubus