Lupus

See also: lupus and lúpus

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin lupus (“wolf”)

Proper noun

Lupus m

1. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Canidae – now called Canis, the genus that includes wolves and dogs, which have no essential characters that taxonomically distinguish them as genera.

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English

Etymology

From Latin lupus (“wolf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːpəs/

Proper noun

Lupus

1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra.
2. A city and village in Missouri, United States.

Derived terms

• Lupi

Translations

summer constellation of the northern sky

• Amharic: ተኩላ m (täkula)
• Arabic: اَلذِّئْب m (aḏ-ḏiʔb)
• Bengali: নেকড়ে (nekoṛe)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豺狼座 (caai⁴ long⁴ zo⁶)

  Mandarin: 豺狼座 (zh) (Cháilángzuò)

• Esperanto: Lupo
• Finnish: Susi (fi)
• French: Loup (fr) m
• Galician: Lobo (gl)
• German: Wolf (de) m
• Greek:

  Classical: Θηρίον n (Thēríon)

  Modern: Λύκος (el) m (Lýkos)

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• Hebrew: זְאֵב (he) m (z'év)
• Hindi: भेड़िया (hi) m (bheṛiyā)
• Irish: an Faolchú m
• Japanese: 狼座 (ja) (おおかみざ, Ōkamiza)
• Korean: 늑대 자리 (neukdae jari)
• Latin: Lupus (la), Bestia
• Malay: Serigala
• Polish: Wilk (pl) m
• Portuguese: Lobo m, Lupus m
• Russian: Волк (ru) (Volk)
• Spanish: Lupus (es), Lobo (es) m
• Telugu: తొండేలురాశి (toṇḍēlurāśi)
• Tibetan: སྦྱང་ཀུ (sbyang ku)
• Urdu: بھیڑیا m (bheṛiyā)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈɫ̪ʊpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈluːpus]

Proper noun

Lupus m sg (genitive Lupī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lupus
Genitive	Lupī
Dative	Lupō
Accusative	Lupum
Ablative	Lupō
Vocative	Lupe

Descendants

• French: Loup
• Italian: Lupo
• Spanish: Lope

References

• “Lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Proper noun

Lupus ?

1. (astronomy) Lupus (summer constellation of the northern sky)