Lupia

Probably from the place Lupia in Scigliano of the Cosenza province. Also possibly from Greek Λουπιαί (Loupiaí), the Greek name name for Lecce, which is from Latin Lupiae.

Lupia m or f by sense

1. a surname

• apuli

Of Germanic origin, from the root *lipjā. One common interpretation is that the Romanized form reflects a folk etymological adaptation to Latin lupus (“wolf”).

The Germanic root is linked to verbs describing the river's flow characteristics, related to *sleupan (“to creep, sneak”). Supporting evidence includes Old High German sliofan, glossed as lūbricus (“slippery, smooth”) in Latin. Variants with and without s-mobile may represent parallel developments of the same root.^[1]

• Luppia

Lūpia m sg (genitive Lūpiae); first declension

1. The river Lippe

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Lupia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lupia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Luppia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫʊ.pi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.pi.a]

Lupia f sg (genitive Lupiae); first declension

1. alternative form of Lupiae (“Lecce”)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.19.101:

     ab Hydrunte Soletum desertum, dein Fratuertium, portus Tarentinus, statio Miltopes, Lupia, Balesium, Caelia, Brundisium

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.