loupe

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See also: Loupe and loupé

English

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Dental loupes
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Etymology

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Borrowed from French loupe.

Pronunciation

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Homophone: loop

Noun

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loupe (plural loupes)

  1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
  2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

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French

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Etymology

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From Middle French, from Old French loupe (sapphire lens, imperfect gem, mass of hot metal), from Frankish *luppa (something pendulous), from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (that which hangs or dangles), *lub- (to peel, hang), from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (to peel, skin). Cognate with Dutch dialectal (Meuse-Rhenish) luppe (piece); Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (dangling part); Saterland Frisian lobbe (hanging lump of flesh); Old English loppe, lobbe (spider); Dutch lob (hanging lip, ruffle or sleeve). More at lobe.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lup/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -up

Noun

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loupe f (plural loupes)

  1. magnifying glass
  2. loupe
  3. (medicine) wen (a cyst on the skin)
  4. (botany) burl, a growth on the side of a tree
  5. (slang) laziness
    Synonym: flemme

Descendants

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  • Catalan: lupa
  • Danish: lup
  • Dutch: loep
    • Indonesian: lup
  • English: loupe
  • Finnish: luppi
  • German: Lupe
  • Luxembourgish: Lupp
  • Polish: lupa
  • Portuguese: lupa
  • Romanian: lupă
  • Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
  • Spanish: lupa
  • Swedish: lupp
  • Vietnamese: kính lúp

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Limburgish

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Etymology

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From Middle Limburgish loupen, from Old Limburgish loupan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.

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Verb

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loupe (third-person singular present löppt, preterite léïp, past participle geloupe, auxiliary verb séëne) (Eupen)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to walk; to jog; to run (to move on foot; either at a normal or an increased speed)
  2. (intransitive, of a fluid) to flow; to leak; to run
  3. (intransitive, of an event) to be in progress; to run
  4. (intransitive, of an event) to be in order; to work; to function
  5. (intransitive, of time) to pass; to flow

Conjugation

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Irregular with past tense (Eupen dialect)
infinitive loupe
participle geloupe
auxiliary séëne
present
indicative
past
indicative
conditional imperative
1st singular loup léïp lääp
2nd singular löpps léïps lääps loup
3rd singular löppt léïp lääp
1st plural loupe léïpe lääpe
2nd plural loppt léïpt lääpt loppt
3rd plural loupe léïpe lääpe

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Noun

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loupe oblique singularf (oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)

  1. tumor
  2. cyst
  3. lump; mass
  4. uncut precious stone
  5. mass of molten metal

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