loup

See also: Loup

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːp/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Homophone: loop

Noun

loup (plural loups)

  1. (metallurgy) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the trip hammer or rolls.

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “loup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French loup, from an old western dialectal variant lou of Old French leu and reformed analogically from the feminine louve from Latin lupus (“wolf”).

Cognate with Italian lupo; Portuguese and Spanish lobo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -u

Noun

loup m (plural loups, feminine louve)

  1. wolf
    un jeune loup ― a young wolf
  2. bass (fish)
  3. mask, eyemask
  4. flaw

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: lou
  • ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lulu
  • ⇒ Seychellois Creole: loulou
  • → English: loo; Loup

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From a western dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), replacing the native Old French, all from Latin lupus.

Noun

loup m (plural loups)

  1. wolf (animal)

Descendants

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • loub

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *laub, see also Old Saxon lōf, Old English lēaf, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).

Noun

loup n

  1. leaves

Descendants

  • Middle High German: loup
    • Alemannic German: Làuib (Alsatian)
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: loap
      Mòcheno: lap
    • Hunsrik: Laab
    • German: Laub
    • Luxembourgish: Laf
    • Rhine Franconian: Laab
      Frankfurterisch: Laab
    • Vilamovian: łojp

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English lopen, borrowed from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lepe, which was inherited from Old English hlēapan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʌʊp/

Verb

loup (third-person singular simple present loups, present participle loupin, simple past loupit, past participle loupit)

  1. to leap
    • 1786, Robert Burns, Address To The Toothache:
      I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle, / While round the fire the giglets keckle, / To see me loup
      I throw the little stools over the mickle, / While round the fire the children cackle, / To see me leap
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