Noun: loup
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | loup |
| Singular f | louve |
| Plural m | loups |
Sample Sentences
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un jeune loup (a young wolf)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French loup, from an old western dialectal variant lou of Old French leu and reformed analogically from the feminine louve from Latin lupus (“wolf”).
2. Cognate with Italian lupo; Portuguese and Spanish lobo. See: Latin Nouns '
lupus', Italian Nouns '
lupo'.
Verbs referencing "loup"
Spanish Nouns
lobo, French Nouns
lupeux.
Translations