Lupus

See also: lupus and lúpus

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin lupus (“wolf”).

Proper noun

Lupus m

(archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Canidae – now called Canis, the genus that includes wolves and dogs, which have no essential characters that taxonomically distinguish them as genera.

Hypernyms

(genus): See Canis

References

Canis lupus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Latin lupus (“wolf”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈluːpəs/

Proper noun

Lupus

(astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra.
A city and village in Missouri, United States.

Derived terms

Lupi

Translations

summer constellation of the southern sky

Amharic: ተኩላ m (täkula)
Arabic: اَلذِّئْب m (aḏ-ḏiʔb)
Bengali: নেকড়ে (bn) (nekoṛe)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 豺狼座 (caai⁴ long⁴ zo⁶)

Mandarin: 豺狼座 (zh) (Cháilángzuò)
Esperanto: Lupo
Finnish: Susi (fi)
French: Loup (fr) m
Galician: Lobo (gl)
German: Wolf (de) m
Greek: Λύκος (el) m (Lýkos)
Ancient: Θηρίον n (Thēríon)
Hebrew: זְאֵב (he) m (z'év)
Hindi: भेड़िया (hi) m (bheṛiyā), वृक (hi) m (vŕk)
Irish: an Faolchú m
Japanese: 狼座 (ja) (おおかみざ, Ōkamiza)
Korean: 늑대 자리 (neukdae jari)
Latin: Lupus (la), Bestia
Malay: Serigala
Polish: Wilk (pl) m
Portuguese: Lobo (pt) m, Lupus (pt) m
Russian: Волк (ru) (Volk)
Spanish: Lupus (es), Lobo (es) m
Telugu: తొండేలురాశి (toṇḍēlurāśi)
Tibetan: སྦྱང་ཀུ (sbyang ku)
Urdu: بھیڑیا m (bheṛiyā)

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈɫ̪ʊpʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/, [ˈluːpus]

Proper noun

Lupus m sg (genitive Lupī); second declension

A Roman cognomen

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lupus
Genitive	Lupī
Dative	Lupō
Accusative	Lupum
Ablative	Lupō
Vocative	Lupe

Descendants

French: Loup
Italian: Lupo
Spanish: Lope

References

“Lupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Lupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Proper noun

Lupus ?

(astronomy) Lupus (summer constellation of the northern sky)

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