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Latin
Etymology
lupus (“wolf”) + -ārius (suffix forming agent nouns)
Pronunciation
Noun
lupārius m (genitive lupāriī or lupārī); second declension
- (Classical Latin) a wolf-hunter
- (Medieval Latin) a wolfhound
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “lŭpārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "luparius", 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)
- luparius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 623/1, “luparius”