incubate

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• /ˈɪŋkjʊbeɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH1 N K Y AH0 B EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in 1641; borrowed from Latin incubātus, an alternative to incubitus, perfect passive participle of incubō (“to hatch”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + cubō (“to lie”).

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aragonese: cobar — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Aragonese: encobar — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Central Bikol: pahimsa — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Bulgarian: развъждам (razvǎždam) — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Bulgarian: мътя (mǎtja) — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Catalan: covar — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Catalan: incubar — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Chinese Mandarin: 孵化 (fūhuà) — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Esperanto: kovi — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Finnish: hautoa — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• French: incuber — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Galician: incubar — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• German: ausbrüten — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Hebrew: דָּגַר (dagár) — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Irish: gor — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Italian: incubare — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Māori: pēhi — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Portuguese: incubar — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Scottish Gaelic: guir — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Spanish: incubar — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Tamil: அடைகா (aṭaikā) — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Thai: ฟัก (fák) — brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue
• Bulgarian: измътвам (izmǎtvam) — incubate metaphorically
• Chinese Mandarin: 潜伏 (qiánfú) — incubate metaphorically
• Finnish: hautoa — incubate metaphorically
• Finnish: pohtia — incubate metaphorically
• Scottish Gaelic: guir — incubate metaphorically