Lope
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Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin lupus (“wolf”) but borrowed through Basque Lope~Lop, hence the preservation of intervocalic /p/. The final /e/ may derive from the Latin vocative ending -e.[1] Compare the doublet lobo (“wolf”), which Spanish directly inherited from Latin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Lope m
- a male given name
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kouznetsova, Lidia. 2005. Contatti tra lingue romanze e basco sulla base dei nomi di persona medievali. In Arcamone, Maria Giovanna & Bremer, Donatella & De Camilli, Davide & Porcelli, Bruno (eds.), I Nomi nel tempo e nello spazio. Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Onomastiche, vol. 1, 593–604. Pisa: Edizioni ETS.
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- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms borrowed from Basque
- Spanish terms derived from Basque
- Spanish doublets
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ope
- Rhymes:Spanish/ope/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish given names
- Spanish male given names