Lupercus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Lupercus.

• IPA^(key): /luːˈpɜː(ɹ)kəs/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kəs^[1]

Lupercus

1. (Roman mythology) A god who protected flocks, in some sources identified with Faunus in the aspect of Innus, and by extension as the equivalent of the Greek Πὰν Λυκαῖος (Pàn Lukaîos, “Lycaean Pan”).

• Lupercal
• Lupercalia

Perhaps a compound of lupus (“wolf”) +‎ arceō (“I ward off”), so named because of the god’s role as protector of flocks from wolves.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫʊˈpɛr.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈpɛr.kus]

Lupercus m sg (genitive Lupercī); second declension

1. Lupercus

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Luperca
• Lupercāl
• Lupercālis
  • Lupercālia

• Russian: Лу́перк (Lúperk)

Lupercus m (genitive Lupercī); second declension

1. a priest of the god Lupercus

Second-declension noun.

• “Lŭpercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Lupercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers