What Is the Latin Word for Wolf

English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin lupus ( " wolf " ). Doublet of lobo and wolf.

Pronunciation [edit]

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

  • Audio (Winchester, UK)

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• Rhymes: -uːpəs

Noun [edit]

lupus (uncountable)

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

   • 2015 January 21, Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan)‎^[1], Team Coco, 00:05:15 from the start:

     You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.

Synonyms [edit]

• wolf ( obsolete )

Derived terms [edit]

• neurolupus

Translations [edit]

Further reading [edit]

• Lupus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

Pronunciation [edit]

• ( Balearic, Central, Valencian ) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/

Noun [edit]

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

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Italian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited lupo.

Noun [edit]

lupus m (invariable)

1. ( medicine ) lupus

Derived terms [edit]

• lupico
• lupoma

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Latin [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. The */kʷ → p/ change is regular in Osco-Umbrian, but absent from Latin.^[1] Another example of a borrowing with that shift is popīna.

Cognates include Ancient Greek λύκος ( lúkos ), Sanskrit वृक ( vṛka ), Old English wulf, and Russian волк ( volk ). Doublet of Lycus; not cognate to Latin vulpēs ( " fox " ).

Pronunciation [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

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

1. ( zoology ) wolf (C. lupus)

   Homō hominī lupus.

   A man is a wolf to another 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 [edit]

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 [edit]

• hirpus

Derived terms [edit]

Descendants [edit]

Note that some descendants reflect /ū/, which is perhaps imitative of the wolf's howling.

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

• → Interlingua: lupo
• Istro-Romanian: lup
• Italian: lupo
• Ligurian: lô
• Mirandese: lhobo
• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: لْيُوبّه‎ ( ʎopu )

  Hebrew: ליוֹפּו‎ ( ʎopu )

• Old Occitan: lop
  • Catalan: llop
  • Occitan: lop
• Old Francoprovençal: lof, luef
  • Franco-Provençal: lof
    • Savoyard: luef
• Old French: leu
  • French: loup, leu
• Old Portuguese: lobo
  • Galician: lobo
  • Portuguese: lobo

• Piedmontese: luv
• Romanian: lup
• Romansch: luf
• Sardinian: lupu
• Sicilian: lupu
  • → Maltese: lupu
• Spanish: lobo
  • → English: loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover
• Venetian: lóvo
• → Volapük: lup
• Walloon: leu

( Borrowings from Scientific Latin )

References [edit]

• 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

1. ^ 2003, Indo-European Linguistics, Michael Meier-Brügger, Matthias Fritz, and Manfred Mayrhofe (p. 99).

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Romanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From French lupus

Noun [edit]

lupus n (uncountable)

1. lupus

Declension [edit]

declension of lupus (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lupus	lupusul
genitive/dative	(unui) lupus	lupusului
vocative	lupusule

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Spanish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlupus/, [ˈlu.pus]
• Rhymes: -upus
• Hyphenation: lu‧pus

Noun [edit]

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

Derived terms [edit]

• lúpico

Further reading [edit]

• "lupus" in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

What Is the Latin Word for Wolf

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lupus

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