lupus

See also: Lupus and lúpus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lobo and wolf.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͝o'pəs
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈluːpəs/

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  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlupəs/

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  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlʉːpəs/
• Rhymes: -uːpəs

Noun

lupus (uncountable)

2. (pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
   • 2015 January 21, 00:05:15 from the start, in Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan)‎, Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco:

     You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.

   • 2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:

     Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Synonyms

• wolf (obsolete)

Derived terms

• lupiform
• lupoid
• lupus erythematosus
• lupuslike
• neurolupus
• nonlupus
• rhupus

Translations

autoimmune disease

Arabic: ذِئْبَة f (ḏiʔba) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: övrə, qurdeşənəyi Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: вълча́нка f (vǎlčánka), ко̀жна туберкуло̀за f (kòžna tuberkulòza) , лу́пус m (lúpus) Catalan: lupus (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 狼瘡 / 狼疮 (zh) (lángchuāng) Esperanto: lupuso Finnish: lupus (fi) French: lupus (fr) m Galician: lupus (gl) m Georgian: მგლურა (mglura) German: Lupus (de) m Greek: λύκος (el) m (lýkos) Hebrew: זָאֶבֶת f (za'évet) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: lupus (it) m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Polish: toczeń (pl) m inan, wilk (pl) m inan (colloquial) Portuguese: lúpus m Romanian: lupus (ro) n Russian: волча́нка (ru) f (volčánka) Serbo-Croatian: zverinac (sh) m Spanish: lupus (es) m Thai: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Lupus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of the inherited llop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈlu.pus]

Noun

lupus m (uncountable)

1. lupus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lupus. Doublet of lovo and the inherited lupo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pus/
• Rhymes: -upus
• Hyphenation: lù‧pus

Noun

lupus m (invariable)

1. (pathology) lupus

Derived terms

• lupico
• lupoma