lupus

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See also: Lupus and lúpus

English

Etymology

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

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Noun

lupus (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
    • 2015 January 21, 00:05:15 from the start, in Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan)‎, Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco:
      You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.
    • 2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:
      Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

Pronunciation

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

  1. lupus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lovo and the inherited lupo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lupus m (invariable)

  1. (pathology) lupus

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Latin

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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

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.

singular plural
nominative lupus lupī
genitive lupī lupōrum
dative lupō lupīs
accusative lupum lupōs
ablative lupō lupīs
vocative lupe lupī

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  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: lup, lupu
    • Istro-Romanian: lup
    • Megleno-Romanian: lup
    • Romanian: lup
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: llop
    • Franco-Provençal: lop
    • Old French: leu (see there for further descendants)
    • Occitan: lop
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Vulgar Latin: *lūpum
  • Conlangs:
    • Esperanto: lupo
    • Interlingua: lupo
    • Volapük: lup

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
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lupus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353
  2. ^ 2003, Indo-European Linguistics, Michael Meier-Brügger, Matthias Fritz, and Manfred Mayrhofe (p. 99).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lupus. Doublet of lup.

Noun

lupus n (uncountable)

  1. lupus

Declension

Declension of lupus
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative lupus lupusul
genitive-dative lupus lupusului
vocative lupusule

Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

  1. lupus

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