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Lope
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lope lopë løpe löpe
Spanish
Etymology
es :bor eu:Lop<ety:der<eu:Lope<ety:der<la:lupus>>>> :lbor la:-e<id:vocative masculine singular><unc> ++
Ultimately from es la lupus wolf but borrowed through es eu Lope~Lop, hence the preservation of intervocalic /p/. The final /e/ may derive from the Latin vocative ending la -e.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. Compare the doublet es lobo wolf 1, which Spanish directly inherited from Latin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
es male
Derived terms
es López
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