lippus

French

Adjective

lippus

1. masculine plural of lippu

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *lipnos, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, stick”). Cognate to Ancient Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat”).

Adjective

lippus (feminine lippa, neuter lippum); first/second-declension adjective

1. having bleary, watery, rheumy or inflamed eyes
2. half-sighted, mope-eyed, purblind, myopic
3. blind to one's own faults

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lippus	lippa	lippum		lippī	lippae	lippa
genitive	lippī	lippae	lippī		lippōrum	lippārum	lippōrum
dative	lippō	lippae	lippō		lippīs
accusative	lippum	lippam	lippum		lippōs	lippās	lippa
ablative	lippō	lippā	lippō		lippīs
vocative	lippe	lippa	lippum		lippī	lippae	lippa

References

• “lippus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lippus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “lippus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.