puppis

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Latin

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (bottom, rear) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, the last), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (turned away) << *h₂epó (away, off), with some uncertainty.[1] Muss-Arnolt compares Hebrew בוב (būḇ, to be hollow).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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puppis f (genitive puppis); third declension

  1. stern, poop of a ship
  2. (by extension) a ship
  3. (figuratively) backside of a person

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in or -e).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative puppis puppēs
Genitive puppis puppium
Dative puppī puppibus
Accusative puppim
puppem
puppēs
puppīs
Ablative puppī
puppe
puppibus
Vocative puppis puppēs

Synonyms

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Descendants

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References

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  • puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • puppis 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)
  • puppis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • puppis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 155
  2. ^ Muss-Arnolt, W. (1892). On Semitic Words in Greek and Latin. United States: Ginn & Company, p. 36