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Latin
Etymology
From lupulus (“wolf”) + -lus.
Pronunciation
Noun
lupellus m (genitive lupellī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) wolf cub, wolfkin, wolfling, wolf whelp
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- "lupellus", 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)
- Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 623/1, “lupellus”