Words that come from Latin “lupus”

216 words across 51 languages descend from Latin lupus — including lieutenant, lieu, milieu, lupus, Guadalupe, Lupus, lupine, lupin.

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English (31)

French (15)

Latin (15)

Spanish (15)

Italian (13)

Swedish (11)

Dutch (9)

Finnish (9)

Portuguese (8)

Esperanto (7)

Norwegian Bokmål (7)

Norwegian Nynorsk (7)

Old French (5)

Volapük (4)

Romanian (4)

Middle French (3)

Catalan (3)

Translingual (3)

Ligurian (3)

Aromanian (3)

German (3)

Friulian (2)

Sicilian (2)

Galician (2)

Estonian (2)

Venetian (2)

Irish (2)

Russian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Aragonese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Maltese (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Asturian (1)

Danish (1)

Emilian (1)

Chinese (1)

Istro-Romanian (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Franco-Provençal (1)

Walloon (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Swahili (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Occitan (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Romansch (1)

Cebuano (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Late Latin (1)