lupanar

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːˈpeɪnɑː/

Noun

lupanar (plural lupanars)

1. (formal) 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

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly.pa.naʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanars)

1. (dated or literary) A brothel.
   • 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Having become a student at University, I visited a brothel and easily succeeded in getting lucky., transl., Psychopathia Sexualis:

     Devenu étudiant à l'Université, je visitai un lupanar et je réussis le coït sans effort.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

Apocope of earlier *lupānāre, a neuter relative adjective equivalent to lupa (“a she-wolf → prostitute”) +‎ -ānus +‎ -āris (both relative adjective suffixes).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.naːr/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnäːr] or IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnär]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈpa.nar/, [luˈpäːnär]
• Note: the last vowel shortened around the time of Terence.

Noun

lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension

1. a brothel, whore-house

   Synonym: (Late Latin) prōstibulum

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3:

     qui in lupanari accubat.

     who relaxes in the brothel.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lupānar	lupānāria
Genitive	lupānāris	lupānārium
Dative	lupānārī	lupānāribus
Accusative	lupānar	lupānāria
Ablative	lupānārī	lupānāribus
Vocative	lupānar	lupānāria

Descendants

• → English: lupanar
• → French: lupanar
• → Italian: lupanare
• → Polish: lupanar
• → Portuguese: lupanar
• → Spanish: lupanar

References

• lŭpānar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lupanar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupanar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lupanar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupanar in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupānar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luˈpa.nar/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -anar
• Syllabification: lu‧pa‧nar

Noun

lupanar m inan

1. (archaic) brothel

   Synonyms: agencja towarzyska, burdel, dom publiczny, zamtuz

Declension

Declension of lupanar

	singular	plural
nominative	lupanar	lupanary
genitive	lupanaru	lupanarów
dative	lupanarowi	lupanarom
accusative	lupanar	lupanary
instrumental	lupanarem	lupanarami
locative	lupanarze	lupanarach
vocative	lupanarze	lupanary

Further reading

• lupanar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lupanar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel (house of prostitution)

   Synonyms: bordel, prostíbulo

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Romanian

Etymology

From French lupanar, from Latin lupanar.

Noun

lupanar n (plural lupanare)

1. brothel

Declension

Declension of lupanar

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lupanar	lupanarul	(niște) lupanare	lupanarele
genitive/dative	(unui) lupanar	lupanarului	(unor) lupanare	lupanarelor
vocative	lupanarule		lupanarelor

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel

   Synonyms: burdel, casa de citas, mancebía, prostíbulo, puticlub

Further reading

• “lupanar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014