Iuppiter

See also: iuppiter

Latin

Iuppiter Tonans ("Jupiter thundering") (late first century statue)

Alternative forms

• Iūpiter, Jūpiter, Juppiter
• Iovis (“Jove”)

Etymology

The nominative Iuppiter, for Iūpiter (with shift of the length from vowel to consonant per the "littera" rule), comes from the vocative combined with pater, and essentially meant "father Jove"; from Proto-Italic *djous patēr, from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), root nomen agentis from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Cognate with Umbrian 𐌉𐌖𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌓 (iupater), and in other branches of Indo-European Sanskrit द्यौष्पितृ (dyáuṣ-pitṛ́), Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “o father Zeus”). Equivalent to diēs (cf. Iovis) + pater.

The oblique cases Iov-, Iovis continue the inflection of Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Cognates are Latin diēs (originating from the accusative case of *djous) and Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯up.pi.ter/, [ˈi̯ʊpːɪt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjup.pi.ter/, [ˈjupːit̪er]

Proper noun

Iuppiter m (genitive Iovis); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) Jupiter (god of the sky and ruler of the Roman pantheon)
2. (astronomy) Jupiter (planet)

   Synonyms: Phaenōn, Phaëthōn

3. (poetic) the sky.
4. (alchemy, chemistry) tin

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Iuppiter	Iovēs
Genitive	Iovis	Iovum
Dative	Iovī	Iovibus
Accusative	Iovem	Iovēs
Ablative	Iove	Iovibus
Vocative	Iuppiter	Iovēs

Derived terms

• dies Iovis
• ioviālis

 

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: Jupiter
• → Arabic: جُوبِيتَر (jūbītar)
• → Armenian: Յուպիտեր (Yupiter)
• Asturian: Xúpiter
• → Azerbaijani: Yupiter
• → Bashkir: Юпитер (Yupiter)
• → Basque: Jupiter
• → Bulgarian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)
• Catalan: Júpiter
• → Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 朱庇特 (Zhūbìtè)
  • Cantonese: 朱庇特 (zyu1 bei3 dak6)
• → Cornish: Jubyter, Yow
• → Czech: Jupiter
• → Dutch: Jupiter
• → English: Jupiter, Jove
• → Esperanto: Jupitero
• → Estonian: Jupiter
• → Finnish: Juppiter, Jupiter
• Franco-Provençal: Jupitèr
• French: Jupiter
• Galician: Xúpiter
• → German: Jupiter
• → Hungarian: Jupiter
• → Icelandic: Júpíter
• → Indonesian: Yupiter
• → Irish: Iúpatar
• Italian: Giove
• → Latvian: Jupiters
• → Lithuanian: Jupiteris
• → Macedonian: Јупитер (Jupiter)
• → Maltese: Ġovè
• → Old Ruthenian: Юпи́теръ (Jupíter), Упи́теръ (Upíter)
  • Belarusian: Юпі́тэр (Jupíter)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: Юпі́тер (Jupíter)
  • Ukrainian: Юпі́тер (Jupíter); юпі́тер (jupíter)
• → Persian: ژوپیتر (župiter)
• → Polish: Jowisz, Jupiter
• Portuguese: Júpiter
• → Romanian: Jupiter
• → Russian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Jùpiter/Ју̀питер
• → Slovak: Jupiter
• → Slovene: Júpiter
• Spanish: Júpiter
• → Swedish: Jupiter
• → Tagalog: Hupiter
• → Turkish: Jüpiter
• → Tuvan: Юпитер (Yupiter)
• → Wolof: Yupiter
• → Yoruba: Júpítérì
• → Zulu: uJupitheri

See also

• Diespiter
• Diovis

References

• “Iuppiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Proper noun

Iuppiter

1. Alternative form of Jubiter