lupanar

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).

• IPA^(key): /luːˈpeɪnɑː/

lupanar (plural lupanars)

1. (formal, archaic) A brothel.
   • 1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda‎, New York: George H. Doran:

     The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, /  Reeked up to the heedless stars.

   • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon 2001, p. 33:

     A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

• lupanarian

From Latin lupānar.

• IPA^(key): /ly.pa.naʁ/

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lupanar m (plural lupanars)

1. (dated or literary) a brothel
   • 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Having become a student at University, I visited a brothel and easily succeeded in getting lucky., transl., Psychopathia Sexualis:

     Devenu étudiant à l'Université, je visitai un lupanar et je réussis le coït sans effort.

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• “lupanar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Apocope of earlier *lupānāre, a neuter relative adjective equivalent to lupa (“a she-wolf → prostitute”) +‎ -ānus +‎ -āris (both relative adjective suffixes).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.naːr/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnäːr] or IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnär]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈpa.nar/, [luˈpäːnär]
• Note: the last vowel shortened around the time of Terence.

lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension

1. a brothel, whore-house

   Synonym: (Late Latin) prōstibulum

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3:

     qui in lupanari accubat.

     who relaxes in the brothel.

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• → English: lupanar
• → French: lupanar
• → Italian: lupanare
• → Polish: lupanar
• → Portuguese: lupanar
• → Romanian: lupanar
• → Spanish: lupanar

• “lŭpānar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lupanar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupanar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “lupanar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lupanar”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin lupānar.

• IPA^(key): /luˈpa.nar/

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• Rhymes: -anar
• Syllabification: lu‧pa‧nar

lupanar m inan

1. (archaic) brothel

   Synonyms: agencja towarzyska, burdel, dom publiczny, zamtuz

• lupanar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lupanar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin lupānārem.

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel (house of prostitution)

   Synonyms: bordel, prostíbulo

From French lupanar, from Latin lupanar.

lupanar n (plural lupanare)

1. brothel

From Latin lupānar.

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel

   Synonyms: burdel, casa de citas, mancebía, prostíbulo, puticlub

• “lupanar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014