loupe
English
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#LOUPECategory:English terms derived from French#LOUPE loupe.
Pronunciation
Noun
loupe (plural loupes)Category:English lemmas#LOUPECategory:English nouns#LOUPECategory:English countable nouns#LOUPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LOUPECategory:Pages with entries#LOUPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOUPE
- A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213:
- Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […]Category:English terms with quotations#LOUPE
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 235:
- pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.Category:English terms with quotations#LOUPE
- 2026 April 24, Robert Klose, “Fix my watch, tell me a story”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- The watchmaker himself, a white-haired éminence grise, was bent over his work, a jeweler’s loupe in his eye, when I walked in.Category:English terms with quotations#LOUPE
- A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle FrenchCategory:French terms derived from Middle French#LOUPE, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms derived from Old French#LOUPE loupe (“sapphire lens, imperfect gem, mass of hot metal”), of uncertainCategory:French terms with unknown etymologies#LOUPE origin, though probably from FrankishCategory:French terms derived from Frankish#LOUPE *luppa (“something pendulous”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Germanic#LOUPE *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), *lub- (“to peel, hang”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LOUPE *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/Category:French 1-syllable words#LOUPECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#LOUPE
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Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#LOUPEAudio (France (Massy)): (file) - Rhymes: -upCategory:Rhymes:French/up#LOUPECategory:Rhymes:French/up/1 syllable#LOUPE
Noun
loupe f (plural loupes)Category:French lemmas#LOUPECategory:French nouns#LOUPECategory:French countable nouns#LOUPECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#LOUPECategory:French feminine nouns#LOUPECategory:Pages with entries#LOUPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOUPE
- magnifying glass
- loupe
- (medicineCategory:fr:Medicine#LOUPE) wen (a cyst on the skin)
- (botanyCategory:fr:Botany#LOUPE) burl, a growth on the side of a tree
- (slangCategory:French slang#LOUPE) laziness
- Synonym: flemme
Descendants
- → Catalan: lupa
- → Danish: lup
- → Dutch: loep
- → Indonesian: lup
- → English: loupe
- → Estonian: luup
- → Finnish: luuppi
- → German: Lupe
- Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#LOUPE
- Korean: 루페 (rupe)
- → Luxembourgish: Lupp
- → Polish: lupa
- → Portuguese: lupa
- → Romanian: lupă
- → Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
- → Spanish: lupa
- → Basque: lupa
- → Swedish: lupp
- → Vietnamese: kính lúp
Further reading
- “loupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Limburgish
Etymology
Category:Limburgish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LOUPEFrom Middle Limburgish loupen, from Old Limburgish loupan, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Limburgish terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#LOUPECategory:Limburgish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#LOUPE *hlaupan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Limburgish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#LOUPECategory:Limburgish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#LOUPE *hlaupaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
loupe (third-person singular present löppt, preterite léïp, past participle geloupe, auxiliary verb séëne)Category:Limburgish lemmas#LOUPECategory:Limburgish verbs#LOUPECategory:Limburgish verbs using séëne as auxiliary#LOUPECategory:Limburgish entries with incorrect language header#LOUPECategory:Pages with entries#LOUPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOUPE (EupenCategory:Eupen Limburgish#LOUPE)
- (transitiveCategory:Limburgish transitive verbs#LOUPE or intransitiveCategory:Limburgish intransitive verbs#LOUPE) to walk; to jog; to run (to move on foot; either at a normal or an increased speed)
- (intransitiveCategory:Limburgish intransitive verbs#LOUPE, of a fluid) to flow; to leak; to run
- (intransitiveCategory:Limburgish intransitive verbs#LOUPE, of an event) to be in progress; to run
- (intransitiveCategory:Limburgish intransitive verbs#LOUPE, of an event) to be in order; to work; to function
- (intransitiveCategory:Limburgish intransitive verbs#LOUPE, of time) to pass; to flow
Conjugation
| Irregular with past tense (Eupen dialect) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | loupe | |||
| participle | geloupe | |||
| auxiliary | séëne | |||
| present indicative |
past indicative |
conditional | imperative | |
| 1st singular | loup | léïp | lääp | — |
| 2nd singular | löpps | léïps | lääps | loup |
| 3rd singular | löppt | léïp | lääp | — |
| 1st plural | loupe | léïpe | lääpe | — |
| 2nd plural | loppt | léïpt | lääpt | loppt |
| 3rd plural | loupe | léïpe | lääpe | — |
Old French
Noun
loupe oblique singular, f (oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)Category:Old French lemmas#LOUPECategory:Old French nouns#LOUPECategory:Old French feminine nouns#LOUPECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#LOUPECategory:Old French feminine nouns#LOUPECategory:Pages with entries#LOUPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOUPE
Descendants
- French: loupe
- → Catalan: lupa
- → Danish: lup
- → Dutch: loep
- → Indonesian: lup
- → English: loupe
- → Estonian: luup
- → Finnish: luuppi
- → German: Lupe
- Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#LOUPE
- Korean: 루페 (rupe)
- → Luxembourgish: Lupp
- → Polish: lupa
- → Portuguese: lupa
- → Romanian: lupă
- → Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
- → Spanish: lupa
- → Basque: lupa
- → Swedish: lupp
- → Vietnamese: kính lúp