pupa

From New Latin, from Latin pūpa.

pupa

1. Used as a specific epithet; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.

• Pupa

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːpə/

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• Rhymes: -uːpə

pupa (plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)

1. An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.

• chrysalis

• caterpillar

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa.

pupa m (genitive singular pupa, nominative plural pupaí)

1. (zoology) pupa

   Synonym: criosalaid

• "pupa" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “pupa” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “pupa” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Borrowed from Latin pūpa. Doublet of poppa.

pupa f (plural pupe)

1. doll (child's toy)
2. pupa

• puppa

Feminine gender of pūpus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.pa/

pūpa f (genitive pūpae); first declension

1. girl, little girl

   Synonyms: puella, puellula

2. doll, puppet
3. (Vulgar Latin) breast, teat, nipple
4. (New Latin) pupa (of an insect)

First declension.

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

pupa f (4th declension)

1. bean

pupa m sg

1. genitive singular form of pups

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/

pupa f

1. (anatomy, somewhat childish) bum, rear, buttocks

• pupa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from New Latin pupa, from special use of Latin pūpa.

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. pupa (insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult)

From a Vulgar Latin *puppāre, from puppa (“breast, teat, nipple”), from Latin pūpa; or perhaps formed from a hypothetical, now lost noun *pupă in early Romanian, from this Latin word. Compare Italian poppare (“to suckle”), poppa (“boob, breast”), Catalan and Occitan popar (“to suckle”), popa (“boob, breast”). Less likely from or linked to pup (“bud”).

• IPA^(key): [puˈpa]

a pupa (third-person singular present pupă, past participle pupat) 1st conj.

1. (informal, transitive or reflexive with accusative) to kiss

   Te pup dulce.

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   Synonym: săruta

• pup
• pupăcios

Borrowed from New Latin pupa, from special use of Latin pūpa.

pupa f (plural pupas)

1. pupa
2. bump, especially a cold sore
3. (childish) boo-boo (pain)