lepus

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Etymology

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, “European rabbit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛ.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.pus]

Noun

lepus m (genitive leporis); third declension

1. a hare

   Sextus videt leporem. ― Sextus sees the hare.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.100:

     et lepus inpavidus mediīs errāvit in arvīs

     and hares wandered, unafraid, among the fields

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.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lepus	leporēs
genitive	leporis	leporum
dative	leporī	leporibus
accusative	leporem	leporēs
ablative	lepore	leporibus
vocative	lepus	leporēs

Coordinate terms

• (hare): cunīculus, dasypūs

Derived terms

• leporārius
• leporīnus
• lepusculus

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: ljepuri
  • Romanian: iepure
  • → Proto-Albanian:
    • Albanian: lepur, lepër — Gheg, lepën — Gheg
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • >? Corsican: levra
  • Dalmatian: lipro
  • Italian: lepre
  • Neapolitan: lèbbre, lèparu, lèpra
  • >? Sicilian: lepru, dièvuru, lebbru
    • → Maltese: liebru
  • Venetan: lievro, liéore
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: jeur
  • Ladin: liever
  • Romansch: lieur
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: lîvra
  • Lombard: legor, légur
  • Piedmontese: levr
  • Romagnol: lìvri
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: llebre
  • Franco-Provençal: liévra
  • Occitan: lèbre
  • Old French: lievre (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: liebre
  • Asturian: llebre
  • Galician: lebre
  • Portuguese: lebre
  • Old Spanish: liebre
    • Spanish: liebre
      • → Tagalog: liyebre
• Insular Romance:
  • Pre-Corsican:
    • Gallurese: lepparu
    • Sassarese: lepparu
  • Sardinian: leppore
• Borrowings:
  • → Translingual: Lepus

References

• “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.

Lithuanian

Etymology

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Adjective

lepùs m (feminine lepi̇̀) stress pattern 4

1. fastidious, spoilt

   Jis lepus ir visada galvoja tik apie save

   He is so fastidious and always thinking only about himself.