Noun: lupanar
| Singular | lupanar |
| Plural | lupanars |
Sample Sentences
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The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, / Reeked up to the heedless stars. [1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda, New York: George H. Doran:]
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A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar. [1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 33:]
Nouns inflected like lupanar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”). See: Latin Nouns '
lupānar'.