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lupus

Pronunciation: [ˈɫʊ.pʊs]

“lupus” is a Latin word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. wolf (Canis lupus)
  2. pike (Esocidae)
  3. wolffish (Anarhichadidae)
  4. an uncertain kind of spider
  5. a kind of bit
  6. a kind of handsaw
  7. a kind of hook used for hoisting objects
  8. hops (Humulus lupulus)

In Latin

  1. Animal mammiferum speciei Canis lupus. Lupus
  2. Piscis familiae Anarhichadidae, praesertim Anarhichas lupus. Lupus

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibilities include: * Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”). The term may have undergone metathesis to Proto-Italic *lukʷos, which then may have entered Latin via a Osco-Umbrian language, where the change of *kʷ to /p/ is regular. Another example of a borrowing with that shift is popīna. According to the linguist Stefan Höfler, a non-metathesized Italic form may be…

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