loup

See also: Loup

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).

Noun

loup (plural loups)

  1. A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for loup in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Etymology

From Middle French loup, from a dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), or perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan lop, replaced the native Old French, all from Latin lupus, from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/
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  • Rhymes: -u

Noun

loup m (plural loups, feminine louve)

  1. wolf
  2. bass (fish)
  3. mask, eyemask
  4. flaw

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), or perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan lop, replacing the native Old French, all from Latin lupus.

Noun

loup m (plural loups)

  1. wolf (animal)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laubą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“peel, break off”), Old Saxon lōf, Old English lēaf, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).

Noun

loup n

  1. leaves

Descendants

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʌʊp/

Verb

loup (third-person singular present loups, present participle loupin, past loupit, past participle loupit)

  1. to leap
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