lupanar

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).

• IPA^(key): /luːˈpeɪnɑː/

lupanar (plural lupanars)

1. (formal, archaic) A brothel.
   • 1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda‎^[1], New York: George H. Doran:

     The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, /  Reeked up to the heedless stars.

   • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 33:

     A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

• lupanarian

Learned borrowing from Latin lupānar.

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [lu.pəˈna]

• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [lu.paˈnaɾ]

lupanar m (plural lupanars)

1. (literary) brothel

   Synonyms: bordell, prostíbul

• “lupanar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin lupānar.

• IPA^(key): /ly.pa.naʁ/

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lupanar m (plural lupanars)

1. (dated or literary) brothel
   • 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:

     Devenu étudiant à l'Université, je visitai un lupanar et je réussis le coït sans effort.

     Having become a student at university, I visited a brothel and easily managed to have intercourse.

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 73:

     Ce soir tu as décidé de retourner au Bar Biturique, ton lupanar favori. Les maisons closes sont supposées être interdites en France ; pourtant, rien qu'à Paris, on en dénombre une bonne cinquantaine.

     Tonight you've decided to go back to the Bar Biturique, your favourite house of ill repute. Brothels are supposed to be banned in France, but in Paris alone there are a good fifty of them.

• “lupanar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Apocope of earlier *lupānāre, a neuter relative adjective equivalent to lupa (“a she-wolf” → “prostitute”) +‎ -ānus +‎ -āris (both relative adjective suffixes). See -ar.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫʊˈpaː.naːr], [ɫʊˈpaː.nar]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈpaː.nar]
• Note: the last vowel shortened around the time of Terence.

lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension

1. brothel, whore-house

   Synonym: (Late Latin) prōstibulum

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3:

     qui in lupanari accubat.

     who relaxes in the brothel.

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• → Catalan: lupanar
• → English: lupanar
• → French: lupanar
• → Italian: lupanare
• → Polish: lupanar
• → Portuguese: lupanar
• → Romanian: lupanar
• → Spanish: lupanar

• “lŭpānar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lupanar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupanar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lupanar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lupanar”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Learned borrowing from Latin lupānar.

• IPA^(key): /luˈpa.nar/

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• Rhymes: -anar
• Syllabification: lu‧pa‧nar

lupanar m inan

1. (archaic) brothel

   Synonyms: agencja towarzyska, burdel, dom publiczny, zamtuz

• lupanar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lupanar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin lupānārem.

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel (house of prostitution)

   Synonyms: bordel, prostíbulo

Borrowed from French lupanar, from Latin lupanar.

lupanar n (plural lupanare)

1. brothel

From Latin lupānar.

• IPA^(key): /lupaˈnaɾ/ [lu.paˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: lu‧pa‧nar

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel

   Synonyms: burdel, casa de citas, mancebía, prostíbulo, puticlub

• “lupanar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024