lupanar

Etymology

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːˈpeɪnɑː/

Noun

lupanar (plural lupanars)

1. (formal) A brothel.
   • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon 2001, p. 33:

     A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanars)

1. (dated or literary) A brothel.

Further reading

• “lupanar” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From lupa (“prostitute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫʊˈpaː.nar]

Noun

lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension

1. brothel

   Synonym: prōstibulum

   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3

     qui in lupanari accubat.

     who relaxes in the brothel.

2. accusative singular of lupānar
3. vocative singular of lupānar

References

• lŭpānar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lupanar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupanar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lupanar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupanar in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel (house of prostitution)

Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel