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- recumbent[recumbent 词源字典]
- recumbent: see incubate
[recumbent etymology, recumbent origin, 英语词源] - recumbent (adj.)
- 1705, from Latin recumbentem (nominative recumbens), present participle of recumbere "recline, lie down, lie down again;" of things, "to fall, sink down, settle down," from re- "back" (see re-) + -cumbere "to lie down" (see succumb). Related: Recumbency (1640s). A verb, recumb, has been attempted in English occasionally since 1670s.