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lupus

See also: Lupus and lúpus

English

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Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lobo and wolf.

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lupus (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
    • 2015 January 21, 00:05:15 from the start, in Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan)‎[1], Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco:
      You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.

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Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

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lupus m (uncountable)

  1. lupus

Italian

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Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lovo and the inherited lupo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlu.pus/
  • Rhymes: -upus
  • Hyphenation: lù‧pus

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lupus m (invariable)

  1. (pathology) lupus

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Latin

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From Proto-Italic *lukʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”), with a metathesis of *wĺ̥- to *lú-. The shift of *kʷ to /p/ can be explained as a borrowing from an Osco-Umbrian language, where the change is regular.[1][2] Another example of a borrowing with that shift is popīna.

Cognates include Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos), Sanskrit वृक (vṛka), Old English wulf, and Old Church Slavonic влькъ (vlĭkŭ). Doublet of lycos and Lycus; not cognate to Latin vulpēs (“fox”).

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lupus m (genitive lupī, feminine lupa); second declension

  1. (zoology) wolf (C. lupus)
    Homō hominī lupus.
    A man is a wolf to another man.
  2. (zoology) an animal which acts in the savage manner of a wolf, particularly:
    1. pike (Esocidae)
    2. wolffish (Anarhichadidae)
    3. an uncertain kind of spider
  3. (carpentry) a tool which is shaped like a wolf's tooth, particularly:
    1. a kind of bit
    2. a kind of handsaw
    3. a kind of hook used for hoisting objects
  4. (botany) hops (H. lupulus)

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lupus lupī
Genitive lupī lupōrum
Dative lupō lupīs
Accusative lupum lupōs
Ablative lupō lupīs
Vocative lupe lupī

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Note that some descendants reflect Vulgar Latin /ū/, which is perhaps imitative of the wolf's howling.

(Borrowings from Scientific Latin)

References

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  • “lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lupus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lupus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “lupus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lupus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353
  2. ^ 2003, Indo-European Linguistics, Michael Meier-Brügger, Matthias Fritz, and Manfred Mayrhofe (p. 99).

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French lupus.

Noun

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lupus n (uncountable)

  1. lupus

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declension of lupus (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) lupus lupusul
genitive/dative (unui) lupus lupusului
vocative lupusule

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlupus/ [ˈlu.pus]
  • Rhymes: -upus
  • Syllabification: lu‧pus

Noun

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lupus m (uncountable)

  1. lupus

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