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pupus

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay pupus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puspus (“finished, completed; all gone”), *-pus (“end, finish”).

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Adjective

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pupus

  1. extinct, no longer in existence; having died out.
    Synonym: punah

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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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From a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little”) (whence also puer). De Vaan additionally supports Ernout and Meillet's hypothesis of pūpa being the original form, and pūpus being a derivative.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pūpus m (genitive pūpī); second declension

  1. a boy, a child
  2. a puppet
  3. the pupil of the eye (post-class. for pūpula and pūpilla)

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pūpus pūpī
genitive pūpī pūpōrum
dative pūpō pūpīs
accusative pūpum pūpōs
ablative pūpō pūpīs
vocative pūpe pūpī

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: pupo
  • Sicilian: pupu

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pūpa (> Derivatives: pūpus)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 500

Further reading

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  • “pupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pupus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

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Noun

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pupus m

  1. accusative plural of pups

Sundanese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puspus (“finished, completed; all gone”), *-pus (“end, finish”).

Verb

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pupus

  1. to die
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