pupa

From New Latin, from Latin pūpa.

pupa

1. Used as a specific epithet; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.

• Pupa

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa. Doublet of pupe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːpə/

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• Rhymes: -uːpə

pupa (plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)

2. (entomology) An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.

   Synonym: pupe

   • 1959 April 21, Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 34:

     The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]

• chrysalis
• tumbler

• caterpillar

• pupa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish popa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupa/
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜉ)

1. (nautical) the stern; the rear part of a ship or vessel

   Synonym: ulin

   Antonyms: dulong, prowa

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Learned borrowing from Latin pūpa. Doublet of pop and popi

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa

1. pupa.

• “pupa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

pupa (plural pupas)

1. girl

   Synonym: puera

2. doll
3. pupa (of an insect)

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa.

pupa m (genitive singular pupa, nominative plural pupaí)

1. (zoology) pupa

   Synonym: criosalaid

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pupa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “pupa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “pupa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Borrowed from Latin pūpa. Doublet of poppa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Hyphenation: pù‧pa

pupa f (plural pupe)

1. doll (child's toy)
2. pupa

• puppa

By surface analysis, the feminine gender form of pūpus. However, de Vaan considers the feminine form as original; see pūpus for more.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.pa/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/,

pūpa f (genitive pūpae); first declension

1. girl, little girl

   Synonyms: puella, puellula

2. doll, puppet
3. (New Latin) pupa (of an insect)

First-declension noun.

• “pupa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pupa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pupa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pupa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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pupa f (4th declension)

1. bean (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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pupa m sg

1. genitive singular of pups

Cognate with Latvian pupa (“bean”), from a sound-symbolic root Baltic root (see also Latvian paupt (“to swell”)) of seemingly similar formation logic to Proto-Slavic *bòbъ (“bean”).^[1]

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pupà f (plural pùpos) stress pattern 2

1. bean, legume

Borrowed from Italian pupa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.pa/

pupa f (plural pupi)

1. doll (child's toy)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/

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• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: pu‧pa

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from German Popo. According to Pokorny, cognate with Latin puppis (possibly) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”) << *h₂epó (“away, off”).^[1]

pupa f (diminutive pupcia or pupka)

1. (anatomy, euphemistic, somewhat childish) bum, rear, buttocks

   Synonyms: dupa, pośladki, siedzenie, tyłek, zadek

Learned borrowing from Latin pūpa.

pupa f

1. (obsolete) doll, puppet

   Synonyms: kukła, lalka, (obsolete) łątka

• pupa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pupa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from New Latin pupa, from special use of Latin pūpa.

• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. pupa (insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult)

From a Vulgar Latin *puppāre, from puppa (“breast, teat, nipple”), from Latin pūpa; or perhaps formed from a hypothetical, now lost noun *pupă in early Romanian, from this Latin word. Compare Italian poppare (“to suckle”), poppa (“boob, breast”), Catalan and Occitan popar (“to suckle”), popa (“boob, breast”). Less likely from or linked to pup (“bud”). Cognate with Albanian puth (“to kiss”).

• IPA^(key): /puˈpa/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

a pupa (third-person singular present pupă, past participle pupat) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive or reciprocal, informal) to kiss

   Synonym: (literary or formal) săruta

2. (reciprocal, figurative, colloquial) to match, to coincide, make for a good fit
3. (transitive, chiefly in the negative, figurative, colloquial) to obtain or stay in possession of something desired

   Nu mai pupi tu mașină.

   You can kiss your car goodbye.

   Cu notele astea, nu pupă el bursă.

   With his grades, a scholarship is out of the question.

• pupa în bot
• pupa în cur
• pupăcios

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of pupă (“stern”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of pupă (“pupa”)

• pupa in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

pupa (Cyrillic spelling пупа)

1. genitive singular of pup

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: pu‧pa

Borrowed from New Latin pupa, from special use of Latin pūpa.

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. pupa

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. bump, especially a cold sore
2. (childish) boo-boo (pain)

• “pupa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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pupa class IX (plural pupa class X)

1. haste, impatience

• pụpa (Ekiti)

Compare with Ifè kpikpa, probably from a reduplication of pa (“to be red”), which follows the general pattern of the other basic color roots, which involve a duplication of monosyllabic verbs. See dúdú (“black”), a reduplication of dú (“to be dark”) and funfun, a reduplication of fun (“to be white”). Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *-kpa

Perhaps related to Fon kpákpá (“a tree with red wood”), proposed by Westerman to be derived from Proto-Volta-Congo *pia

• IPA^(key): /k͡pū.k͡pā/

pupa

1. red; that which is red

pupa

1. to be red; to become red

   Synonyms: pọ́n, rẹ̀ dòdò

2. to be light in color, usually in regard to skin tone

• As one of the three basic colors of Yoruba, the others being dúdú, funfun, the color "pupa" serves as a general class for many bright or warm colors including yellow, orange, and pink.