loup
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Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).
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loup (plural loups)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “loup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Inherited from Middle French loup, from an old western dialectal variant lou of Old French leu (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve) from Latin lupus (“wolf”).
Cognate with Italian lupo; Portuguese and Spanish lobo.
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loup m (plural loups, feminine louve)
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- → English: Loup
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Middle French edit
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From a western dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), replacing the native Old French, all from Latin lupus.
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loup m (plural loups)
- wolf (animal)
Old High German edit
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From Proto-West Germanic *laub, see also Old Saxon lōf, Old English lēaf, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).
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loup n
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From Middle English lopen, borrowed from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lepe, which was inherited from Old English hlēapan.
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loup (third-person singular simple present loups, present participle loupin, simple past loupit, past participle loupit)
- to leap
- 1786, Robert Burns, Address To The Toothache:
- I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle, / While round the fire the giglets keckle, / To see me loup
- I throw the little stools over the mickle, / While round the fire the children cackle, / To see me leap