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French
Adjective
lippus
- masculine plural of lippu
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lipnos, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, stick”). Cognate to Ancient Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat”).
Adjective
lippus (feminine lippa, neuter lippum); first/second-declension adjective
- having bleary, watery, rheumy or inflamed eyes
- half-sighted, mope-eyed, purblind, myopic
- blind to one's own faults
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “lippus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lippus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lippus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.