lupus

From Latin lupus (“wolf”).

lupus

1. The specific name of the grey wolf, Canis lupus.
2. Ellipsis of Canis lupus (“grey wolf”)
3. Ellipsis of Canis lupus lupus (“Eurasian wolf”)

Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of wolf.

• enPR: lo͝o'pəs, IPA^(key): /ˈluːpəs/
• Rhymes: -uːpəs

lupus (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
   • 2015 January 21, Conan O'Brien, Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan)‎, Team Coco, 00:05:15 from the start:

     You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.

• neurolupus

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited lupo.

lupus m (invariable)

1. (medicine) lupus

• lupico
• lupoma

From an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Osco-Umbrian regularly changes Proto-Indo-European */kʷ/ into /p/, which indicates that the word was borrowed rather than directly inherited from Proto-Italic.[1]

Cognates include Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos), Sanskrit वृक (vṛka), Old English wulf, and Russian волк (volk). Not a cognate of volpēs (“fox”)).

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

lupus m (genitive lupī); second declension (feminine lupa)

1. (zoology) wolf (C. lupus)

   Homo homini lupus est.

   Man is a wolf to man.

2. (zoology) an animal which acts in the savage manner of a wolf, particularly:
   1. pike (Esocidae)
   2. wolffish (Anarhichadidae)
   3. an uncertain kind of spider
3. (carpentry) a tool which is shaped like a wolf's tooth, particularly:
   1. a kind of bit
   2. a kind of handsaw
   3. a kind of hook used for hoisting objects
4. (botany) hops (H. lupulus)

Second declension.

• hirpus

(Borrowings from Scientific Latin)

• lupus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lupus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lupus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lobo.

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

• “lupus” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.