loupe

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowing from French loupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /luːp/

Noun

loupe (plural loupes)

1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:

     pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.

2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

Translations

magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放大鏡 (cmn), 放大镜 (cmn) (fàngdàjìng)

• Dutch: loep (nl)
• Finnish: luuppi (fi)
• French: loupe (fr) f
• German: Lupe (de) f, Vergrößerungsglas (de) n
• Japanese: ルーペ (ja) (rūpe)
• Polish: lupa (pl) f

• Russian: лупа (ru) (lúpa) f, увеличительное стекло (ru) (uveličítelʹnoje stekló) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лупа (sh) f, увеличавајуће стакло (sh) n

  Roman: lupa (sh) f, uveličavajuće staklo (sh) n

• Turkish: büyüteç (tr), pertavsız (tr)

type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists

• Russian: лупа (ru) (lúpa) f

See also

• lens
• magnifying glass

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French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French loupe (“sapphire lens, imperfect gem, mass of hot metal”), from Frankish *luppa (“something pendulous”), from Proto-Germanic *lubbō(n)- (“that which hangs or dangles”), *lub- (“to peel, hang”), from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal (Meuse-Rhenish) luppe (“piece”), Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“dangling part”), Eastern Frisian lobbe (“hanging lump of flesh”), Old English loppe, lobbe (“spider”), Dutch lob (“hanging lip, ruffle or sleeve”). More at lobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lup/, X-SAMPA: /lup/

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Noun

loupe f (plural loupes)

1. magnifying glass
2. loupe
3. (medicine) wen (a cyst on the skin)
4. (botany) burl, a growth on the side of a tree
5. (slang) laziness

Synonyms

• (laziness): flemme

Anagrams

• poule

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Old French

Noun

loupe f (oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)

1. tumor
2. cyst
3. lump; mass
4. uncut precious stone
5. mass of molten metal

Descendants

• French: loupe
  • English: loupe (borrowed)