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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (“bottom, rear”) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”), supposedly from or related to *apó (“away, off”), with uncertainties.[1] (However, Pokorny did not consider that the Greek word could just as well reflect *pó-mn̥tos with Cowgill's law.) More information at Sanskrit पुनर् (púnar). Muss-Arnolt compares Hebrew בוב (būḇ, “to be hollow”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
puppis f (genitive puppis); third declension
- stern, poop of a ship
- (by extension) a ship
- (figuratively) backside of a person
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e).
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References
- “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "puppis", 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)
- puppis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “puppis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers