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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay pupus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puspus (“finished, completed; all gone”), *-pus (“end, finish”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
pupus
- extinct, no longer in existence; having died out.
- Synonym: punah
Derived terms
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂w- (“few, little”) (whence also puer).
Pronunciation
Noun
pūpus m (genitive pūpī); second declension
- a boy, a child
- a puppet
- the pupil of the eye (post-class. for pūpula and pūpilla)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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Descendants
References
- “pupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pupus 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)
- pupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Latvian
Noun
pupus m
- accusative plural of pups
Sundanese
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puspus (“finished, completed; all gone”), *-pus (“end, finish”).
Verb
pupus
- to die