loup

See also: Loup

English

Alternative forms

• loop

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).

Noun

loup (plural loups)

1. A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “loup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Lo-p'u

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French

Etymology

From Middle French loup, from a dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), or perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan lop, replaced the native Old French, all from Latin lupus, from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

• Cognate with Italian lupo, Portuguese lobo, Spanish lobo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu/

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• Rhymes: -u

Noun

loup m (plural loups, feminine louve)

1. wolf
2. bass (fish)
3. mask, eyemask
4. flaw

Derived terms

• à pas de loup
• crier au loup
• loup de mer
• loup-garou

• quand on parle du loup
• voir le loup
• avoir une faim de loup

Related terms

• louveteau

Further reading

• “loup”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), or perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan lop, replacing the native Old French, all from Latin lupus.

Noun

loup m (plural loups)

1. wolf (animal)

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laubą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“peel, break off”), Old Saxon lōf, Old English lēaf, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).

Noun

loup n

1. leaves

Descendants

• German: Laub

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Scots

Alternative forms

• lowp (Southern Scots)

Etymology

From Middle English lopen, borrowed from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lepe, which was inherited from Old English hlēapan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌʊp/

Verb

loup (third-person singular simple present loups, present participle loupin, simple past loupit, past participle loupit)

1. to leap
   • 1786, Robert Burns, Address To The Toothache:

     I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle, / While round the fire the giglets keckle, / To see me loup

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