lupus
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lobo and wolf.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupus (uncountable)
- (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.
Synonyms edit
- wolf (obsolete)
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Further reading edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupus m (uncountable)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited lupo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupus m (invariable)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *lukʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”), with a metathesis of *wĺ̥- to *léw-. 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”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈɫ̪ʊpʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈluːpus]
Noun edit
lupus m (genitive lupī, feminine lupa); second declension
- (zoology) wolf (C. lupus)
- Homō hominī lupus.
- A man is a wolf to another man.
- (zoology) an animal which acts in the savage manner of a wolf, particularly:
- (carpentry) a tool which is shaped like a wolf's tooth, particularly:
- (botany) hops (H. lupulus)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lupus | lupī |
Genitive | lupī | lupōrum |
Dative | lupō | lupīs |
Accusative | lupum | lupōs |
Ablative | lupō | lupīs |
Vocative | lupe | lupī |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- agnum lupō ēripere velle (“to wish the impossible, literally: to wish to rescue a lamb from a wolf”)
- homō hominī lupus
- lupārius
- lupātus
- lupellus (Medieval Latin)
- Lupercus
- lupīnus
- Lupus
- lupulus
- lupus in fābulā
- lupus in sermōne
Descendants edit
Note that some descendants reflect /ū/, which is perhaps imitative of the wolf's howling.
- Aragonese: lupo
- Aromanian: lup, lupu
- Asturian: llobu
- Corsican: lupu
- Emilian: låuv
- Friulian: lôf
- Istro-Romanian: lup
- Italian: lupo
- Ligurian: lô
- Mirandese: lhobo
- Old Occitan: lop
- Old Francoprovençal: lof, luef
- Old French: leu
- Neapolitan: lupo
- Old Galician-Portuguese: lobo
- Piedmontese: luv
- Romanian: lup
- Romansch: luf
- Sardinian: lupu
- Sicilian: lupu
- → Maltese: lupu
- Spanish: lobo
- → Tagalog: lobo
- Venetian: lóvo
- Walloon: leu
- → Esperanto: lupo
- → Interlingua: lupo
- → Volapük: lup
(Borrowings from Scientific Latin)
References edit
- “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
- ^ 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
- ^ 2003, Indo-European Linguistics, Michael Meier-Brügger, Matthias Fritz, and Manfred Mayrhofe (p. 99).
Romanian edit
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lupus n (uncountable)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupus m (uncountable)
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Further reading edit
- “lupus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014