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.

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

From lupa (“prostitute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈpa.nar/, [luˈpäːnär]

Noun

lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension

1. brothel

   Synonym: prōstibulum

   • c. 190 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 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
• 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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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