# lupanar
## English
### Etymology

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luːˈpeɪnɑː/

### Noun

lupanar (plural lupanars)
* (formal, archaic) A brothel.
** 1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda‎, New York: George H. Doran:The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, /  Reeked up to the heedless stars.
** 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 33:A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

#### Related terms

* lupanarian

## French
### Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ly.pa.naʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanars)
* (dated or literary) brothel
** 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:Devenu étudiant à l’Université, je visitai un lupanar et je réussis le coït sans effort.Having become a student at university, I visited a brothel and easily managed to have intercourse.
** 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 73:Ce soir tu as décidé de retourner au Bar Biturique, ton lupanar favori. Les maisons closes sont supposées être interdites en France ; pourtant, rien qu’à Paris, on en dénombre une bonne cinquantaine.Tonight you've decided to go back to the Bar Biturique, your favourite house of ill repute. Brothels are supposed to be banned in France, but in Paris alone there are a good fifty of them.

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

Apocope of earlier *lupānāre, a neuter relative adjective equivalent to lupa (“a she-wolf → prostitute”) +‎ -ānus +‎ -āris (both relative adjective suffixes). See -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /luˈpaː.naːr/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnäːr] or IPA: /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnär]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /luˈpa.nar/, [luˈpäːnär]
* Note: the last vowel shortened around the time of Terence.

### Noun

lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension
* brothel, whore-house
    Synonym: (Late Latin) prōstibulum
** c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3:qui in lupanari accubat.who relaxes in the brothel.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

#### Descendants

* → English: lupanar
* → French: lupanar
* → Italian: lupanare
* → Polish: lupanar
* → Portuguese: lupanar
* → Romanian: lupanar
* → Spanish: lupanar

### References

* “lŭpānar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “lupanar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* lupanar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “lupanar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “lupanar”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lupānar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luˈpa.nar/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -anar
* Syllabification: lu‧pa‧nar

### Noun

lupanar m inan
* (archaic) brothel
    Synonyms: agencja towarzyska, burdel, dom publiczny, zamtuz

#### Declension
### Further reading

* lupanar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* lupanar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lupānārem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /lu.paˈna(ʁ)/ [lu.paˈna(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /lu.paˈna(ʁ)/ [lu.paˈna(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /lu.paˈna(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /lu.paˈna(ʁ)/ [lu.paˈna(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /lu.paˈna(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lu.pɐˈnaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lu.pɐˈnaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /lu.pɐˈna.ɾi/

### Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)
* brothel (house of prostitution)
    Synonyms: bordel, prostíbulo

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French lupanar, from Latin lupanar.

### Noun

lupanar n (plural lupanare)
* brothel

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin lupānar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lupaˈnaɾ/ [lu.paˈnaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: lu‧pa‧nar

### Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)
* brothel
    Synonyms: burdel, casa de citas, mancebía, prostíbulo, puticlub

### Further reading

* “lupanar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10