English

Noun

lupanar ‎(plural lupanars)

1. A brothel.
   • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon 2001, p. 33:

     A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

Related terms

• lupanarian

French

Noun

lupanar m ‎(plural lupanars)

1. (dated or literary) A brothel.

Latin

Etymology

From lupa ‎(“prostitute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫʊˈpaː.nar]

Noun

lupānar n ‎(genitive lupānāris); third declension

1. brothel
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3

     qui in lupanari accubat.

     who relaxes in the brothel.

2. accusative singular of lupānar
3. vocative singular of lupānar

Declension

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Synonyms

• (brothel): prōstibulum

References

• lŭpānar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lupanar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lupanar”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• lupanar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lupanar in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

lupanar m (plural lupanares)

1. brothel (house of prostitution)

Synonyms

• bordel, prostíbulo

Spanish

Noun

lupanar m ‎(plural lupanares)

1. brothel

Synonyms

• burdel
• casa de citas
• mancebía
• prostíbulo
• puticlub