lupanar

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanars)

1. (dated or literary) A brothel.

Further reading

• “lupanar” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Etymology

From lupa (“prostitute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫʊˈpaː.nar]

Noun

lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension

1. brothel
   • c. 254 BCE – 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

Declension

Third declension 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

Synonyms

• (brothel): prōstibulum

Descendants

• English: lupanar
• French: lupanar
• Italian: lupanare
• 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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel (house of prostitution)

Synonyms

• bordel, prostíbulo

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel

Synonyms

• burdel
• casa de citas
• mancebía
• prostíbulo
• puticlub