English

Dental loupes.

Noun

loupe ‎(plural loupes)

1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 213:

     Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […].

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:

     pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.

2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

Translations

See also

• lens
• magnifying glass

French

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

• IPA^(key): /lup/
• Rhymes: -up

Noun

loupe f ‎(plural loupes)

1. magnifying glass
2. loupe
3. (medicine) wen (a cyst on the skin)
4. (botany) burl, a growth on the side of a tree
5. (slang) laziness

Synonyms

• (laziness): flemme

Anagrams

• poule

Descendants

• Finnish: luppi
• German: Lupe
  • Japanese: ルーペ ‎(rūpe)
  • Korean: 루페 ‎(rupe)
• Luxembourgish: Lupp
• Spanish: lupa
  • Basque: lupa
• Vietnamese: kính lúp

Old French

Noun

loupe f ‎(oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)

1. tumor
2. cyst
3. lump; mass
4. uncut precious stone
5. mass of molten metal

Descendants

• French: loupe
  • English: loupe (borrowed)