lippus

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French

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Adjective

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lippus

  1. masculine plural of lippu

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *lipnos, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (to smear, stick). Cognate to Ancient Greek λίπος (lípos, fat).

Adjective

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lippus (feminine lippa, neuter lippum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. having bleary, watery, rheumy or inflamed eyes
  2. half-sighted, mope-eyed, purblind, myopic
  3. blind to one's own faults

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • lippus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lippus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lippus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.