Translingual

Etymology

From Latin lupus ‎(“wolf”)

Proper noun

Lupus m

1. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Canidae – now called Canis, the genus that includes wolves and dogs, which have no essential characters that taxonomically distinguish them as genera.

English

Proper noun

Lupus

1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra.
2. A city/village in Missouri, US.

Derived terms

• Lupi

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈɫʊ.pʊs]

Proper noun

Lupus

1. A Roman cognomen

Descendants

• French: Loup
• Italian: Lupo
• Spanish: Lope

References

• Lupus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Lupus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Spanish

Proper noun

Lupus ?

1. (astronomy) Lupus (summer constellation of the northern sky)

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin lupus ‎(“wolf”).

Noun

lupus

1. The specific name of the grey wolf, Canis lupus.

English

Noun

lupus ‎(uncountable)

1. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
   • 2015 January 21, Conan O'Brien, Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan), 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.

Translations

Italian

Noun

lupus m ‎(invariable)

1. (pathology) lupus

Derived terms

• lupico
• lupoma

Latin

Etymology

From an Osco-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.^[1]

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈɫʊ.pʊs]

Noun

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

1. wolf

   Homo homini lupus est.

   Man is a wolf to man.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• hirpus

Derived terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lupus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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).

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus.

Noun

lupus m ‎(uncountable)

1. lupus