different between jeweller vs loupe

English

Etymology

jewel +? -er

Noun

jeweller (plural jewellers)

1. Alternative spelling of jeweler

Translations

Middle English

Noun

jeweller

1. Alternative form of jueler

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French loupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?p/

Noun

loupe (plural loupes)

1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 213:

     Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […]

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:

     pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.

2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

Translations

See also

• lens
• magnifying glass

Anagrams

• Puleo, poule

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French loupe (“sapphire lens, imperfect gem, mass of hot metal”), from Frankish *luppa (“something pendulous”), from Proto-Germanic *lubb? (“that which hangs or dangles”), *lub- (“to peel, hang”), from Proto-Indo-European *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/
• Rhymes: -up

Noun

loupe f (plural loupes)

1. magnifying glass
2. loupe
3. (medicine) wen (a cyst on the skin)
4. (botany) burl, a growth on the side of a tree
5. (slang) laziness

   Synonym: flemme

Anagrams

• poule

Descendants

• ? Danish: lup
• ? Dutch: loep
  • ? Indonesian: lup
• ? Finnish: luppi
• ? German: Lupe
  • ? Japanese: ??? (r?pe)
  • ? Korean: ?? (rupe)
• ? Luxembourgish: Lupp
• ? Polish: lupa
• ? Romanian: lup?
• ? Spanish: lupa
  • ? Basque: lupa
• ? Vietnamese: kính lúp

Further reading

• “loupe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

loupe f (oblique plural loupes, nominative singular loupe, nominative plural loupes)

1. tumor
2. cyst
3. lump; mass
4. uncut precious stone
5. mass of molten metal

Descendants

• French: loupe
  • ? English: loupe