# loupe
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French loupe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luːp/
* Rhymes: -uːp
Homophone: loop

### Noun

loupe (plural loupes)
* A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
** 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213:Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […]
** 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 235:pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.
* A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

#### Derived terms

* under the loupe

#### Translations
### See also

* lens
* magnifying glass

### Anagrams

* Puleo, poule

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French loupe (“sapphire lens, imperfect gem, mass of hot metal”), of uncertain origin, though probably from Frankish *luppa (“something pendulous”), from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), *lub- (“to peel, hang”), from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal (Meuse-Rhenish) luppe (“piece”); Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“dangling part”); Saterland Frisian lobbe (“hanging lump of flesh”); Old English loppe, lobbe (“spider”); Dutch lob (“hanging lip, ruffle or sleeve”). More at lobe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lup/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -up

### Noun

loupe f (plural loupes)
* magnifying glass
* loupe
* (medicine) wen (a cyst on the skin)
* (botany) burl, a growth on the side of a tree
* (slang) laziness
    Synonym: flemme

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: lupa
* → Danish: lup
* → Dutch: loep
** → Indonesian: lup
* → English: loupe
* → Finnish: luppi
* → German: Lupe
** Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe)
** Korean: 루페 (rupe)
* → Luxembourgish: Lupp
* → Polish: lupa
* → Portuguese: lupa
* → Romanian: lupă
* → Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
* → Spanish: lupa
** → Basque: lupa
* → Swedish: lupp
* → Vietnamese: kính lúp

### Further reading

* “loupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* poule

## Limburgish
### Etymology

From Middle Limburgish loupen, from Old Limburgish loupan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɔu̯.pə/
* Rhymes: -ɔu̯pə

### Verb

loupe (third-person singular present löppt, preterite léïp, past participle geloupe, auxiliary verb séëne) (Eupen)
* (transitive or intransitive) to walk; to jog; to run (to move on foot; either at a normal or an increased speed)
* (intransitive, of a fluid) to flow; to leak; to run
* (intransitive, of an event) to be in progress; to run
* (intransitive, of an event) to be in order; to work; to function
* (intransitive, of time) to pass; to flow

#### Conjugation
## Old French
### Noun

loupe oblique singular, f (oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)
* tumor
* cyst
* lump; mass
* uncut precious stone
* mass of molten metal

#### Descendants

* French: loupe
** → Catalan: lupa
** → Danish: lup
** → Dutch: loep
*** → Indonesian: lup
** → English: loupe
** → Finnish: luppi
** → German: Lupe
*** Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe)
*** Korean: 루페 (rupe)
** → Luxembourgish: Lupp
** → Polish: lupa
** → Portuguese: lupa
** → Romanian: lupă
** → Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
** → Spanish: lupa
*** → Basque: lupa
** → Swedish: lupp
** → Vietnamese: kính lúp