puppis

== Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (“bottom, rear”) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”), supposedly from or related to *apó (“away, off”), with uncertainties. (However, Pokorny did not consider that the Greek word could just as well reflect *pó-mn̥tos with Cowgill's law.) More information at Sanskrit पुनर् (púnar). An extra-Indo-European comparison such as to Hebrew בוב (būḇ, “to be hollow”) was soon dismissed when the understanding of Indo-European consolidated. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpʊp.pɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpup.pis] === Noun === puppis f (genitive puppis); third declension stern, poop of a ship (by extension) a ship (figuratively) backside of a person ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e). ==== Synonyms ==== (ship): nāvis ==== Descendants ==== === References === “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "puppis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “puppis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “puppis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers