pupus

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pupus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puspus (“finished, completed; all gone”), *-pus (“end, finish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupʊs/
• Hyphenation: pu‧pus
• Rhymes: -pʊs, -ʊs, -s

Adjective

pupus

1. extinct, no longer in existence; having died out.

   Synonym: punah

Derived terms

• memupus
• memupuskan
• terpupus

 

Further reading

• “pupus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Alternative forms

• puppus

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂w- (“few, little”) (whence also puer).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.pus/, [ˈpuːpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pus/, [ˈpuːpus]

Noun

pūpus m (genitive pūpī); second declension

1. a boy, a child
2. a puppet
3. the pupil of the eye (post-class. for pūpula and pūpilla)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pūpus	pūpī
genitive	pūpī	pūpōrum
dative	pūpō	pūpīs
accusative	pūpum	pūpōs
ablative	pūpō	pūpīs
vocative	pūpe	pūpī

Synonyms

• (boy): puer

Derived terms

• pūpa
• pūpillus
• pūpulus

Descendants

• Italian: pupo
• Sicilian: pupu

References

• “pupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pupus 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)
• pupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Noun

pupus m

1. accusative plural of pups

Sundanese

Alternative forms

• ᮕᮥᮕᮥᮞ᮪ (pupus)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puspus (“finished, completed; all gone”), *-pus (“end, finish”).

Verb

pupus

1. to die