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loupe.

magnifying glass

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/lup/
  1. magnifying glass

    feminine
  2. loupe

    feminine
  3. wen (a cyst on the skin)

    feminine
  4. burl, a growth on the side of a tree

    feminine
  5. laziness

    feminine · slang
Where this word comes from

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.

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