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From New Latin, from Latin pūpa.

pupa

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

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

pupa (plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)

  1. (entomology) An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
    Synonym: pupe

insect

Borrowed from Spanish popa.

  • IPA(key): /ˈpupa/ [ˈpu.pɐ]
  • Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜉ)

  1. (nautical) the stern; the rear part of a ship or vessel
    Synonym: ulin
    Antonyms: dulong, prowa

Learned borrowing from Latin pūpa. Doublet of pop and popi

  • IPA(key): [ˈpu.pa]
  • Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa (first-person possessive pupaku, second-person possessive pupamu, third-person possessive pupanya)

  1. pupa.

pupa (plural pupas)

  1. girl
    Synonym: puera
  2. doll
  3. pupa (of an insect)

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

pupa m (genitive singular pupa, nominative plural pupaí)

  1. (zoology) pupa
    Synonym: criosalaid
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pupa phupa bpupa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Borrowed from Latin pūpa. Doublet of poppa.

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.pa/
  • Rhymes: -upa
  • Hyphenation: pù‧pa

pupa f (plural pupe)

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

Feminine gender of pūpus.

pūpa f (genitive pūpae); first declension

  1. girl, little girl
    Synonyms: puella, puellula
  2. doll, puppet
  3. (New Latin) pupa (of an insect)

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pūpa pūpae
Genitive pūpae pūpārum
Dative pūpae pūpīs
Accusative pūpam pūpās
Ablative pūpā pūpīs
Vocative pūpa pūpae
  • 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
 
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pupa f (4th declension)

  1. bean (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Declension of pupa (4th declension)

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pupa m sg

  1. genitive singular of pups

Cognate with Latvian pupa (bean), from a sound-symbolic root Baltic root (see also Latvian paupt (to swell)) of seemingly similar formation logic to Proto-Slavic *bòbъ (bean).[1]

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pupà f (plural pùpos) stress pattern 2

  1. bean, legume
  1. ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “pupà 1.”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 670-1

Borrowed from Italian pupa.

pupa f (plural pupi)

  1. doll (child's toy)
  • IPA(key): /ˈpupa/
  • Rhymes: -upa
  • Syllabification: pu‧pa

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from German Popo. According to Pokorny, cognate with Latin puppis (possibly) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, the last), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (turned away) << *h₂epó (away, off).[1]

pupa f (diminutive pupcia or pupka)

  1. (anatomy, euphemistic, somewhat childish) bum, rear, buttocks
    Synonyms: dupa, pośladki, siedzenie, tyłek, zadek

Learned borrowing from Latin pūpa.

pupa f

  1. (obsolete) doll, puppet
    Synonyms: kukła, lalka, (obsolete) łątka
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 155
  • pupa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pupa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

  • Hyphenation: pu‧pa

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). Cognate with Albanian puth (to kiss).

  • IPA(key): /puˈpa/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: pu‧pa

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

  1. (transitive or reciprocal, informal) to kiss
    Synonym: (literary or formal) săruta
  2. (reciprocal, figurative, colloquial) to match, to coincide, make for a good fit
  3. (transitive, chiefly in the negative, figurative, colloquial) to obtain or stay in possession of something desired

    Nu mai pupi tu mașină.

    You can kiss your car goodbye.

    Cu notele astea, nu pupă el bursă.

    With his grades, a scholarship is out of the question.
  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.pa/
  • Rhymes: -upa
  • Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of pupă (stern)
  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.pa/
  • Rhymes: -upa
  • Hyphenation: pu‧pa

pupa

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of pupă (pupa)

pupa (Cyrillic spelling пупа)

  1. genitive singular of pup
  • IPA(key): /ˈpupa/ [ˈpu.pa]
  • Rhymes: -upa
  • Syllabification: pu‧pa

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

pupa f (plural pupas)

  1. pupa

pupa f (plural pupas)

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

pupa (n class, plural pupa)

  1. haste, impatience

Compare with Ifè kpikpa, probably from a reduplication of pa (to be red), which follows the general pattern of the other basic color roots, which involve a duplication of monosyllabic verbs. See dúdú (black), a reduplication of (to be dark) and funfun, a reduplication of fun (to be white). Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *-kpa

Perhaps related to Fon kpákpá (a tree with red wood), proposed by Westerman to be derived from Proto-Volta-Congo *pia

pupa

  1. red; that which is red

pupa

  1. to be red; to become red
    Synonyms: pọ́n, rẹ̀ dòdò
  2. to be light in color, usually in regard to skin tone
  • As one of the three basic colors of Yoruba, the others being dúdú, funfun, the color "pupa" serves as a general class for many bright or warm colors including yellow, orange, and pink.