loupe

English

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loupe

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French loupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Homophone: loop

Noun

loupe (plural loupes)

1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213:

     Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […]

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 235:

     pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.

2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

Derived terms

• under the loupe

Translations

See also

• lens
• magnifying glass

Anagrams

• Puleo, poule

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French loupe (“sapphire lens, imperfect gem, mass of hot metal”), from Frankish *luppa (“something pendulous”), from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), *lub- (“to peel, hang”), from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal (Meuse-Rhenish) luppe (“piece”); Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“dangling part”); Saterland Frisian lobbe (“hanging lump of flesh”); Old English loppe, lobbe (“spider”); Dutch lob (“hanging lip, ruffle or sleeve”). More at lobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lup/

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• Rhymes: -up

Noun

loupe f (plural loupes)

1. magnifying glass
2. loupe
3. (medicine) wen (a cyst on the skin)
4. (botany) burl, a growth on the side of a tree
5. (slang) laziness

   Synonym: flemme

Descendants

Further reading

• “loupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• poule

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Limburgish loupen, from Old Limburgish loupan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯.pə/
• Rhymes: -ɔu̯pə

Verb

loupe (third-person singular present löppt, preterite léïp, past participle geloupe, auxiliary verb séëne) (Eupen)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to walk; to jog; to run (to move on foot; either at a normal or an increased speed)
2. (intransitive, of a fluid) to flow; to leak; to run
3. (intransitive, of an event) to be in progress; to run
4. (intransitive, of an event) to be in order; to work; to function
5. (intransitive, of time) to pass; to flow

Conjugation

Old French

Noun

loupe oblique singular, f (oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)

1. tumor
2. cyst
3. lump; mass
4. uncut precious stone
5. mass of molten metal

Descendants

• French: loupe
  • → Catalan: lupa
  • → Danish: lup
  • → Dutch: loep
    • → Indonesian: lup
  • → English: loupe
  • → Finnish: luppi
  • → German: Lupe
    • Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe)
    • Korean: 루페 (rupe)
  • → Luxembourgish: Lupp
  • → Polish: lupa
  • → Portuguese: lupa
  • → Romanian: lupă
  • → Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
  • → Spanish: lupa
    • → Basque: lupa
  • → Swedish: lupp
  • → Vietnamese: kính lúp