pupa

See also: Pupa, púpa, pupă, and pupą

Translingual

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin pūpa.

Noun

pupa

1. Used as a specific epithet; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.

Derived terms

• Braniella pupa
• Cerithiopsis pupa
• Cochlodinium pupa
• Echinorhynchus pupa
• Ehrenbergina pupa
• Gigantopora pupa
• hirtipupa
• Horologica pupa
• Leptopilos pupa
• Lernanthropus pupa
• Megalospora pupa
• Meganthribus pupa
• Micrathena pupa
• Palaina pupa
• pictipupa
• Pseudomyrmex pupa
• Puperita pupa
• Thomisops pupa
• Travisia pupa

 

Related terms

• Pupa

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa. Doublet of pupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːpə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːpə

Noun

pupa (plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)

1. An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
   • 1959, Walt Kelly, Pogo, April 21 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 34):

     [Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind...

Synonyms

• pupe

Hyponyms

• chrysalis
• tumbler

Translations

insect

• Albanian: krizalidë f
• Arabic: خَادِرَة‎ f (ḵādira), شَرْنَقَة‎ (ar) f (šarnaqa)
• Armenian: հարսնյակ (hy) (harsnyak)
• Belarusian: ку́калка f (kúkalka), ля́лечка f (ljálječka)
• Bengali: পিউপা (piupa)
• Bulgarian: какавида f (kakavida)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛹 (zh) (yǒng)

• Crimean Tatar: qozalaq
• Czech: kukla (cs) f
• Danish: puppe c
• Dutch: pop (nl) f
• Esperanto: pupo (eo)
• Estonian: nukk
• Finnish: kotelo (fi)
• French: chrysalide (fr) f, nymphe (fr) f
• Georgian: ჭუპრი (č̣uṗri)
• German: Puppe (de) f
• Greek: χρυσαλλίδα (el) f (chrysallída)
• Hebrew: גֹּלֶם / גולם‎ (he) m (gólem)
• Hindi: प्यूपा m (pyūpā)
• Hungarian: báb (hu)
• Icelandic: púpa (is) f
• Indonesian: kepompong (id)
• Italian: pupa (it) f
• Japanese: 蛹 (ja) (さなぎ, sanagi)
• Korean: 번데기 (beondegi)

• Kyrgyz: куурчакча (quurçaqça)
• Latvian: kūniņa f
• Lithuanian: lėliukė f
• Malay: pupa
• Maori: tūngoungou
• Mongolian: авгалдай (mn) (avgalday)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: puppe

• Persian: شفیره‎ (fa) (šafire)
• Polish: poczwarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pupa (pt) f
• Romanian: pupă (ro) f
• Russian: ку́колка (ru) f (kúkolka), хризали́да f (xrizalída)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: куку̀љица f, лу̏тка f

  Roman: kukùljica (sh) f, lȕtka (sh) f

• Slovak: kukla f
• Slovene: buba (sl) f
• Spanish: crisálida (es) f
• Swedish: puppa (sv) c
• Tagalog: tilas
• Thai: ดักแด้ (th) (dàk-dɛ̂ɛ)
• Turkish: krizalit (tr)
• Ukrainian: ля́лечка f (ljálečka)
• Uzbek: gʻumbak (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhộng (vi) (蛹 (vi))

See also

• caterpillar

References

• pupa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūpa. Doublet of pop and popi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpu.pa]
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

Noun

pupa (first-person possessive pupaku, second-person possessive pupamu, third-person possessive pupanya)

1. pupa.

Further reading

• “pupa” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Interlingua

Noun

pupa (plural pupas)

1. girl

   Synonym: puera

2. doll
3. pupa (of an insect)

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa.

Noun

pupa m (genitive singular pupa, nominative plural pupaí)

1. (zoology) pupa

   Synonym: criosalaid

Declension

Declension of pupa

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative pupa pupaí Vocative a phupa a phupaí Genitive pupa pupaí Dative pupa pupaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an pupa na pupaí Genitive an phupa na bpupaí Dative leis an bpupa don phupa leis na pupaí

Derived terms

• pupach (“pupal”, adjective)
• pupaigh (“pupate”, intransitive verb)
• pupalann f (“puparium”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pupa	phupa	bpupa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pupa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “pupa” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “pupa” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pūpa. Doublet of poppa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Hyphenation: pù‧pa

Noun

pupa f (plural pupe)

1. doll (child's toy)
2. pupa

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Latin

Alternative forms

• puppa

Etymology

Feminine gender of pūpus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.pa/, [ˈpuːpä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/, [ˈpuːpä]

Noun

pūpa f (genitive pūpae); first declension

1. girl, little girl

   Synonyms: puella, puellula

2. doll, puppet
3. (New Latin) pupa (of an insect)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūpa	pūpae
Genitive	pūpae	pūpārum
Dative	pūpae	pūpīs
Accusative	pūpam	pūpās
Ablative	pūpā	pūpīs
Vocative	pūpa	pūpae

Derived terms

• pūpilla
• pūpula

 

Descendants

• Albanian: pupë (possibly)
• Aromanian: pupã
• Catalan: popa
• → Catalan: pupa
• → Danish: puppe
• → Dutch: pop
• → English: pupa
• Esperanto: pupo
• → French: pupe
• French: poupée, poupin
• → German: Puppe
• → Icelandic: púpa
• → Italian: pupa
• Italian: poppa
• Old French: poupette
  • → English: puppet, poppet
• → Portuguese: pupa
• → Romanian: pupă
• Romanian: păpușă
• → Spanish: pupa

References

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

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Latvian

pupas

Noun

pupa f (4th declension)

1. bean

Declension

Declension of pupa (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pupa	pupas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pupu	pupas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pupas	pupu
dative (datīvs)	pupai	pupām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pupu	pupām
locative (lokatīvs)	pupā	pupās
vocative (vokatīvs)	pupa	pupas

Noun

pupa m sg

1. genitive singular form of pups

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Maltese

Etymology

From Italian pupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.pa/

Noun

pupa f (plural pupi)

1. doll (child's toy)

Related terms

• pupazz
• pupu

 

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Polish

Etymology

According to Pokorny, cognate with Latin puppis (possibly) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”) << *h₂epó (“away, off”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: pu‧pa

Noun

pupa f

1. (anatomy, somewhat childish) bum, rear, buttocks

Declension

Declension of pupa

	singular	plural
nominative	pupa	pupy
genitive	pupy	pup
dative	pupie	pupom
accusative	pupę	pupy
instrumental	pupą	pupami
locative	pupie	pupach
vocative	pupo	pupy

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin pupa, from special use of Latin pūpa.

Noun

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. pupa (insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult)

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Romanian

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *puppāre, from puppa (“breast, teat, nipple”), from Latin pūpa; or perhaps formed from a hypothetical, now lost noun *pupă in early Romanian, from this Latin word. Compare Italian poppare (“to suckle”), poppa (“boob, breast”), Catalan and Occitan popar (“to suckle”), popa (“boob, breast”). Less likely from or linked to pup (“bud”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [puˈpa]

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

a pupa (third-person singular present pupă, past participle pupat) 1st conj.

1. (informal, transitive or reflexive with accusative) to kiss

   Te pup dulce.

   I kiss you sweetly.

   Synonym: săruta

2. (informal) to match, to coincide

Conjugation

    conjugation of pupa (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a pupa
gerund			pupând
past participle			pupat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	pup	pupi	pupă	pupăm	pupați	pupă
	imperfect	pupam	pupai	pupa	pupam	pupați	pupau
	simple perfect	pupai	pupași	pupă	puparăm	puparăți	pupară
	pluperfect	pupasem	pupaseși	pupase	pupaserăm	pupaserăți	pupaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să pup	să pupi	să pupe	să pupăm	să pupați	să pupe
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		pupă			pupați
	negative		nu pupa			nu pupați

Derived terms

• pup
• pupăcios

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pupa (Cyrillic spelling пупа)

1. genitive singular of pup

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupa/, [ˈpu.pa]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from New Latin pupa, from special use of Latin pūpa.

Noun

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. pupa

Etymology 2

Noun

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. bump, especially a cold sore
2. (childish) boo-boo (pain)

Further reading

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