lupus

See also: Lupus and lúpus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of wolf.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͝o'pəs, IPA^(key): /ˈluːpəs/
• Rhymes: -uːpəs

Noun

lupus (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Derived terms

• neurolupus

Translations

autoimmune disease

• Azerbaijani: övrə
• Catalan: lupus (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狼瘡／狼疮 (zh) (lángchuāng), 狼疮 (zh) (lángchuāng)

• Finnish: lupus (fi)
• Galician: lupus (gl) m
• Georgian: მგლურა (mglura)
• Greek: λύκος (el) m (lýkos)
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• Italian: lupus (it) m
• Polish: toczeń m
• Portuguese: lúpus m
• Romanian: lupus (ro) n
• Russian: волча́нка (ru) f (volčánka)
• Serbo-Croatian: zverinac (sh) m
• Spanish: lupus (es) m

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈlu.pus]

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited lupo.

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) lupus

Derived terms

• lupico
• lupoma

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Latin

FWOTD – 20 January 2018

Etymology

From an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Osco-Umbrian regularly changes Proto-Indo-European */kʷ/ into /p/, which indicates that the word was borrowed rather than directly inherited from Proto-Italic.

Cognates include Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos), Sanskrit वृक (vṛka), Old English wulf, and Russian волк (volk). Not a cognate of volpēs (“fox”)).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lupus m (genitive lupī); second declension (feminine lupa)

1. (zoology) wolf (C. lupus)

   Homō hominī lupus est.

   Man is a wolf to man.

2. (zoology) an animal which acts in the savage manner of a wolf, particularly:
   1. pike (Esocidae)
   2. wolffish (Anarhichadidae)
   3. an uncertain kind of spider
3. (carpentry) a tool which is shaped like a wolf's tooth, particularly:
   1. a kind of bit
   2. a kind of handsaw
   3. a kind of hook used for hoisting objects
4. (botany) hops (H. lupulus)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lupus	lupī
Genitive	lupī	lupōrum
Dative	lupō	lupīs
Accusative	lupum	lupōs
Ablative	lupō	lupīs
Vocative	lupe	lupī

Synonyms

• hirpus

Derived terms

• agnum lupō ēripere velle (“to wish the impossible, literally: to wish to rescue a lamb from a wolf”)
• homō hominī lupus
• lupārius
• lupātus
• lupellus (Medieval Latin)

• Lupercus
• lupīnus
• Lupus
• lupus in fābulā
• lupus in sermōne

Descendants

• Aragonese: lupo
• Aromanian: lup, lupu
• Asturian: llobu
• Corsican: lupu
• Emilian: låuv
• → Esperanto: lupo
• Franco-Provençal: lôf, lop
• Friulian: lôf

• → Interlingua: lupo
• Istro-Romanian: lup
• Italian: lupo
• Ligurian: lô
• Mirandese: lhobo
• Old Occitan: lop
  • Catalan: llop
  • Occitan: lop
• Old French: leu
  • French: loup, leu
• Old Galician-Portuguese: lobo
  • Galician: lobo
  • Portuguese: lobo

• Romanian: lup
• Romansch: luf
• Sardinian: lupu
• Sicilian: lupu
  • → Maltese: lupu
• Spanish: lobo
• Venetian: lóvo
• → Volapük: lup
• Walloon: leu

(Borrowings from Scientific Latin)

• → Catalan: lupus
• → English: lupus
• → Finnish: lupus
• → French: lupus
• → Galician: lupus

• → Italian: lupus
• → Portuguese: lúpus
• → Romanian: lupus
• → Spanish: lupus

References

• “lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lupus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lupus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

Further reading

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