pupa – English noun declension

English noun forms of pupa

Noun: pupa
Singularpupa
Pluralpupae; pupas

Sample Sentences

  • The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […] [1959 April 21, Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 34:]

Nouns inflected like pupa

scapula, larva, uvula, antenna, fibula, nebula, pupa, vita,

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa (“little girl; doll, puppet”). Doublet of pupe; compare also puppet, puppy. See: Latin Nouns 'pūpa'.