Lupia

See also: lupia

Italian

Etymology

Probably from the place Lupia in Scigliano of the Cosenza province. Also possibly from Greek Λουπιαί (Loupiaí), the Greek name name for Lecce, which is from Latin Lupiae.

Proper noun

Lupia m or f by sense

a surname

Anagrams

apuli

Latin

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Etymology 1

Of Germanic origin, from the root *lipjā. One common interpretation is that the Romanized form reflects a folk etymological adaptation to Latin lupus (“wolf”).

The Germanic root is linked to verbs describing the river's flow characteristics, related to *sleupan (“to creep, sneak”). Supporting evidence includes Old High German sliofan, glossed as lūbricus (“slippery, smooth”) in Latin. Variants with and without s-mobile may represent parallel developments of the same root.^[1]

Alternative forms

Luppia

Proper noun

Lūpia m sg (genitive Lūpiae); first declension

The river Lippe

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Lūpia
genitive	Lūpiae
dative	Lūpiae
accusative	Lūpiam
ablative	Lūpiā
vocative	Lūpia

References

“Lupia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Lupia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“Luppia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

^ Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: Die altgermanischen Toponyme sowie ungermanische Toponyme Germaniens. Ein Handbuch zu ihrer Etymologie unter Benutzung einer Bibliographie von Robert Nedoma (= Philologica Germanica 34, herausgegeben von Hermann Reichert). Fassbaender, Wien 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3, S. 222–223; Franz Cramer: Lupia 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band XIII,2, Stuttgart 1927, Sp. 1842 f.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pi.a/, [ˈɫ̪ʊpiä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pi.a/, [ˈluːpiä]

Proper noun

Lupia f sg (genitive Lupiae); first declension

Alternative form of Lupiae (“Lecce”)
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.19.101:
  ab Hydrunte Soletum desertum, dein Fratuertium, portus Tarentinus, statio Miltopes, Lupia, Balesium, Caelia, Brundisium

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Lupia
genitive	Lupiae
dative	Lupiae
accusative	Lupiam
ablative	Lupiā
vocative	Lupia
locative	Lupiae

[1] Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: Die altgermanischen Toponyme sowie ungermanische Toponyme Germaniens. Ein Handbuch zu ihrer Etymologie unter Benutzung einer Bibliographie von Robert Nedoma (= Philologica Germanica 34, herausgegeben von Hermann Reichert). Fassbaender, Wien 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3, S. 222–223; Franz Cramer: Lupia 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band XIII,2, Stuttgart 1927, Sp. 1842 f.

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