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.

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/village in Missouri, US.

Derived terms

Lupi

Translations

summer constellation of the northern sky

Amharic: ተኩላ m (täkula)
Arabic: اَلذِّئْب‎‎ m (aḏ-ḏiʾb)
Bengali: নেকড়ে (nekṛe)
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:
Classical: Θηρίον n (Thēríon)

Modern: Λύκος (el) m (Lýkos)

Hebrew: זְאֵב‎‎ (he) m (z'év)
Hindi: भेड़िया (hi) m (bheṛiyā)
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 m, Lupus m
Russian: Волк (ru) (Volk)
Spanish: Lupus (es), Lobo (es) m
Tibetan: སྦྱང་ཀུ (sbyang ku)
Urdu: بھیڑیا‎‎ m (bheṛiyā)

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Lupus m (genitive Lupī); second declension

A Roman cognomen

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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