pupa

See also: Pupa, púpa, and pupă

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin

Noun

pupa

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• Pupa

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English

Etymology

From New Latin, from a special use of Latin pupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːpə/

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• Rhymes: -uːpə

Noun

pupa (plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)

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

Hyponyms

• chrysalis

Translations

insect

• Arabic: خَادِرَة f (ḵādira)
• Armenian: հարսնյակ (hy) (harsnyak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛹 (zh) (yǒng)

• Crimean Tatar: qozalaq
• Dutch: pop (nl) f
• Finnish: kotelo (fi)
• French: chrysalide (fr) f, nymphe (fr) f
• German: Puppe (de) f
• Hebrew: גֹּלֶם (he) m (gólem)
• Hungarian: báb (hu)
• Indonesian: kepompong (id)

• Japanese: 蛹 (ja) (さなぎ, sanagi)
• Korean: 번데기 (beondegi)
• Mongolian: авгалдай (mn) (avgaldaj)
• Persian: شفیره (fa) (šafire)
• Polish: poczwarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pupa (pt) f
• Romanian: pupă (ro) f
• Russian: ку́колка (ru) f (kúkolka)
• Serbo-Croatian: kukuljica (sh) f, lutka (sh) f
• Spanish: crisálida f
• Tagalog: tilas
• Vietnamese: nhộng (vi) (蛹 (vi))

See also

• caterpillar

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin pupa.

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/

Noun

pūpa f (genitive pūpae); first declension

1. girl, little girl
2. doll, puppet

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pūpa	pūpae
genitive	pūpae	pūpārum
dative	pūpae	pūpīs
accusative	pūpam	pūpās
ablative	pūpā	pūpīs
vocative	pūpa	pūpae

Synonyms

• (girl, little girl): puella, puellula

Derived terms

• pūpilla
• pūpula

Descendants

• Albanian: pupë
• English: pupa, puppet, poppet
• French: pupe, poupée, poupin
• German: Puppe
• Italian: pupa, poppa

• Old French: poupette
• Portuguese: pupa, popa
• Romanian: pupă, păpușă
• Spanish: pupa

References

• pupa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pupa” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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

1. genitive singular form of pups

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpupa]

Noun

pupa f

1. (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

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Portuguese

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 Vulgar Latin root *puppāre, from puppa < Latin pupa. Compare Italian poppare, Catalan and Occitan popar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [puˈpa]

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.

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

Synonyms

• săruta

Related terms

• pup

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Spanish

Noun

pupa f (plural pupas)

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