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incubare

to incubate

verb een-koo-BAH-reh Rare
Body & Health Health & Illness

Origin: From Latin incubare (to lie upon): in- + cubare (to lie down).

Also means

to hatch

Usage Note

Incubare takes avere as its auxiliary in compound tenses. It is used both literally (birds incubating eggs) and medically (incubare una malattia — to be in the incubation period of an illness, before symptoms appear). The noun incubazione refers to both the hatching period and the medical incubation period.

Examples

"Le sue idee eterodosse sfidano la tradizione."

Natural Translation

The bird incubates the eggs for weeks.

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