lupanar

English

Etymology

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”), literally ‘she-wolf’, from lupus (“wolf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /luːˈpeɪnɑː/

Noun

lupanar (plural lupanars)

1. A brothel.
   • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon 2001, p. 33:

     A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

Related terms

• lupanarian

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French

Noun

lupanar m. (plural lupanars)

1. (dated or literary) A brothel.

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Latin

Etymology

From lupa (“prostitute”)

Noun

lupānar (genitive lupānāris); n, third declension

1. brothel
   • c. 254–184 BCE — Plautus, Bacchides 3.3

     qui in lupanari accubat.

     who relaxes in the brothel.

2. accusative singular of lupānar
3. vocative singular of lupānar

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	lupānar	lupānāria
genitive	lupānāris	lupānārium
dative	lupānārī	lupānāribus
accusative	lupānar	lupānāria
ablative	lupānārī	lupānāribus
vocative	lupānar	lupānāria

References

• lupanar in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879