lupus

Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lobo and wolf.

• enPR: lo͝o'pəs
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈluːpəs/

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  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlupəs/

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  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlʉːpəs/
• Rhymes: -uːpəs

lupus (uncountable)

2. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
   • 2015 January 21, 00:05:15 from the start, in Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan)‎^[1], Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco:

     You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.

   • 2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:

     Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

• wolf (obsolete)

• Lupus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈlu.pus]

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lovo and the inherited lupo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/
• Rhymes: -upus
• Hyphenation: lù‧pus

lupus m (invariable)

1. (pathology) lupus

• lupico
• lupoma

From Proto-Italic *lukʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”), with a metathesis of *wĺ̥- to *lú-. The shift of *kʷ to /p/ can be explained as a borrowing from an Osco-Umbrian language, where the change is regular.^[1][2] Another example of a borrowing with that shift is popīna.

Cognates include Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos), Sanskrit वृक (vṛka), Old English wulf, and Old Church Slavonic влькъ (vlĭkŭ). Doublet of lycos and Lycus; not cognate to Latin vulpēs (“fox”).

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

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

1. (zoology) wolf (C. lupus)

   Homō hominī lupus.

   A man [is] a wolf to [another] man.

2. (zoology) an animal which acts in the savage manner of a wolf, particularly:
   1. pike (Esocidae)
   2. wolffish (Anarhichadidae)
   3. an uncertain kind of spider
3. (carpentry) a tool which is shaped like a wolf's tooth, particularly:
   1. a kind of bit
   2. a kind of handsaw
   3. a kind of hook used for hoisting objects
4. (botany) hops (H. lupulus)

Second-declension noun.

• hirpus

Borrowings from Scientific Latin:

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from French lupus. Doublet of lup.

lupus n (uncountable)

1. lupus

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlupus/ [ˈlu.pus]
• Rhymes: -upus
• Syllabification: lu‧pus

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

• “lupus”, 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