Etymograph

English

lupanar

Lupanar comes from Latin lupānar ‘brothel, whore-house’, from lupa ‘prostitute’, and ultimately from lupus ‘wolf’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElupus‘wolf’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElupa‘prostitute’literally ‘she-wolf’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElupānar‘brothel, whore-house’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1920lupanar

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElupus‘wolf’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElupa‘prostitute’literally ‘she-wolf’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElupānar‘brothel, whore-house’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1920lupanar

Earliest quotation: 1920, Aldous Huxley, From the Pillar: “The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos ‘wolf’

wolf, lupine, 9 more

through Latin lupus ‘wolf’

lobo, lupus, loafer, lupin, 3 more

Today it means

noun A brothel.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin lupus / lupanar

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