lupus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lobo and wolf.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͝o'pəs, IPA^(key): /ˈluːpəs/

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• Rhymes: -uːpəs

Noun

lupus (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Synonyms

• wolf (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Lupus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited lupo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/
• Rhymes: -upus
• Hyphenation: lù‧pus

Noun

lupus m (invariable)

1. (pathology) lupus

Derived terms

• lupico
• lupoma

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

lupus

Wikipedia ^la

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *lukʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”), with a metathesis of *wĺ̥- to *lú-. The shift of *kʷ to /p/ can be explained as a borrowing from an Osco-Umbrian language, where the change is regular. Another example of a borrowing with that shift is popīna.

Cognates include Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos), Sanskrit वृक (vṛka), Old English wulf, and Old Church Slavonic влькъ (vlĭkŭ). Doublet of lycos and Lycus; not cognate to Latin vulpēs (“fox”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/,

Noun

lupus m (genitive lupī, feminine lupa); second declension

1. (zoology) wolf (C. lupus)

   Homō hominī lupus.

   A man is a wolf to another man.

2. (zoology) an animal which acts in the savage manner of a wolf, particularly:
   1. pike (Esocidae)
   2. wolffish (Anarhichadidae)
   3. an uncertain kind of spider
3. (carpentry) a tool which is shaped like a wolf's tooth, particularly:
   1. a kind of bit
   2. a kind of handsaw
   3. a kind of hook used for hoisting objects
4. (botany) hops (H. lupulus)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• hirpus

Derived terms

Descendants

Note that some descendants reflect /ū/, which is perhaps imitative of the wolf's howling.

(Borrowings from Scientific Latin)

References

• “lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupus 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)
• lupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lupus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lupus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lupus.

Noun

lupus n (uncountable)

1. lupus

Declension

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

lupus

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlupus/
• Rhymes: -upus
• Syllabification: lu‧pus

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

Derived terms

Further reading

• “lupus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014