loupe
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Etymology
Pronunciation
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
Translations
magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
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Anagrams
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French loupe (“sapphire lens, imperfect gem, mass of hot metal”), 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
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
Further reading
- “loupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Etymology
From Middle Limburgish loupen, from Old Limburgish loupan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.
Pronunciation
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
| Irregular with past tense (Eupen dialect) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | loupe | |||
| participle | geloupe | |||
| auxiliary | séëne | |||
| present indicative |
past indicative |
conditional | imperative | |
| 1st singular | loup | léïp | lääp | — |
| 2nd singular | löpps | léïps | lääps | loup |
| 3rd singular | löppt | léïp | lääp | — |
| 1st plural | loupe | léïpe | lääpe | — |
| 2nd plural | loppt | léïpt | lääpt | loppt |
| 3rd plural | loupe | léïpe | lääpe | — |
Noun
loupe oblique singular, f (oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)
Descendants
- French: loupe