pupus

Latin

Alternative forms

• puppus

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂w- (“few, little”) (whence also puer).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.pus/, [ˈpuːpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pus/, [ˈpuːpus]

Noun

pūpus m (genitive pūpī); second declension

1. a boy, a child
2. a puppet
3. the pupil of the eye (post-class. for pūpula and pūpilla)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūpus	pūpī
Genitive	pūpī	pūpōrum
Dative	pūpō	pūpīs
Accusative	pūpum	pūpōs
Ablative	pūpō	pūpīs
Vocative	pūpe	pūpī

Synonyms

• (boy): puer

Derived terms

• pūpa
• pūpillus
• pūpulus

Descendants

• Italian: pupo

References

• “pupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pupus 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)
• pupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Latvian

Noun

pupus m

1. (deprecated template usage) accusative plural form of pups

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Sundanese

Romanization

pupus

1. Romanization of ᮕᮥᮕᮥᮞ᮪