loup

• loop

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

loup (plural loups)

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

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.

• Cognate with Italian lupo, Portuguese lobo, Spanish lobo

• IPA^(key): /lu/

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• Rhymes: -u

loup m (plural loups, feminine louve)

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

• louveteau

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

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.

loup m (plural loups)

1. wolf (animal)

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).

loup n

1. leaves

• German: Laub

• lowp (South Scots)

From Middle English lopen, borrowed from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lepe, which was inherited from Old English hlēapan.

• IPA^(key): /lʌʊp/

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

1. to leap