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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A female demon supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with a man while he sleeps.
  2. n. An evil spirit; a demon.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A demon fabled to have sexual intercourse with human beings in their sleep.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.
  2. n. A strumpet, whore or prostitute.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. incubus.
  2. n. (Med.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men

Etymologies

  1. Alteration in Middle English of Late Latin succuba ("strumpet, especially a mythological fiend in female form who has intercourse with men in their sleep"), from succubare ("to lie under"), from sub- ("under") + cubare ("to lie down"), from Proto-Indo-European *keu(b) (“to bend, to turn”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Medieval Latin, alteration (influenced by Late Latin incubus, incubus) of Latin succuba, paramour, from succubāre, to lie under : sub-, sub- + cubāre, to lie down. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • sionnach Interesting that succubus is on 42 wordies' lists, while incubus appears on only 27. Incubus, in contrast, enjoys several more Weirdnet definitions. Sep 14, 2009

  • qroqqa Sometimes in the altered form succuba with feminine ending (which in Latin actually meant "whore"). The primacy of the masculine -us ending, however, means (I think) that it is not the case that the demons were female, rather that they took female form to lie under (sub-cub-) men; as they took male form to lie in (in-cub-) women. Jun 10, 2009

  • punchcard A succubus (plural succubi) is a demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men, especially monks, in dreams to have sexual intercourse, according the medieval European legend. Their male counterpart is the incubus. They draw energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death of the victim. Sep 27, 2008

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