puppis

See also: Puppis

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (“bottom, rear”) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”) << *h₂epó (“away, off”), with some uncertainty. Muss-Arnolt compares Hebrew בוב (būḇ, “to be hollow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpup.pis/, [ˈpʊpːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpup.pis/, [ˈpupːis]

Noun

puppis f (genitive puppis); third declension

1. stern, poop of a ship
2. (by extension) a ship
3. (figuratively) backside of a person

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	puppis	puppēs
Genitive	puppis	puppium
Dative	puppī	puppibus
Accusative	puppim puppem	puppēs puppīs
Ablative	puppī puppe	puppibus
Vocative	puppis	puppēs

Synonyms

• (ship): nāvis

Descendants

• → Dutch: poep, poepdek
• → English: poop, poop deck, Puppis
• Vulgar Latin: *puppa
  • Asturian: popa
  • Catalan: popa
  • Galician: popa
  • Istriot: poûpa
  • Italian: poppa
  • Ligurian: popa
    • French: poupe
    • Norman: poupe
  • Portuguese: popa
  • Romanian: pupă
  • Spanish: popa
  • Venetian: pupa
    • → Albanian: pupë
    • → Dalmatian: pȕpa
    • → Greek: πούπα (poúpa)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پوپا
      • Turkish: pupa

References

• “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puppis 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)
• puppis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “puppis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers