lepus

Unknown. Perhaps not an Indo-European word. It may be of Iberian origin, or else of Celtiberian substrate origin and related to Massaliot λεβηρίς (lebērís).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛpʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pus/, [ˈlɛːpus]

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lepus m (genitive leporis); third declension

1. a hare
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.100:

     et lepus inpavidus mediīs errāvit in arvīs

     and hares wandered, unafraid, among the fields

   Sextus videt leporem. ― Sextus sees the hare.

2. a poisonous sea fish colored like the hare
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Nātūrālis Historia 32.3:

     Nōn sunt minus mīra quae dē lepore marīnō trāduntur.

     No less wonderful, too, are the particulars which we find stated relative to the sea-hare.

3. (astronomy) the constellation Lepus
   • Hyginus, Dē Astronomiā :

     Leporis autem hanc historiam memoriae prōdidērunt.

     The following story of the Hare has been recorded.

Third-declension noun.

• (hare): cunīculus, dasypūs

• leporārius
• leporīnus
• lepusculus

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

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lepùs m (feminine lepì) stress pattern 4

1. fastidious, spoilt

   Jis lepus ir visada galvoja tik apie save

   He is so fastidious and always thinking only about himself.