lupanar

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/luːˈpeɪnɑː/

Definition of lupanar

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, formal)A brothel.
    “The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, / Reeked up to the heedless stars.”
    “A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.”

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Etymology

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).

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