lucubrare

Meaning

1. (ambitransitive, literary) to write by candlelight (or lamplight)
2. (ambitransitive, literary) to carefully elaborate or develop (e.g. a thought)

Translations

elucubrar

Hyphenated as

lu‧cu‧brà‧re

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lu.kuˈbra.re/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin lūcubrāre (“to work at night or by candlelight or lamplight”), from Proto-Italic *lewk-o-dʰro-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”).