Luperca

Femininization of Lupercus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫʊˈpɛr.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈpɛr.ka]

Luperca f sg (genitive Lupercae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) A goddess of the old Romans, the wife of Lupercus, identified with the deified she-wolf that suckled Rōmulus and Remus, and perhaps also identical with Acca Lārentia.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Russian: Лу́перка (Lúperka)

• “Lŭperca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Luperca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 927/3.
• “Luperca” on page 1,051/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)