different between lumine vs lupine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?m?n/

Verb

lumine (third-person singular simple present lumines, present participle lumining, simple past and past participle lumined)

1. (obsolete) To illumine.
   • 16th century, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne Of Heavenly Love

     Compar'd to that celestiall beauties blaze,
     Whose glorious beames all fleshly sense doth daze
     With admiration of their passing light,
     Blinding the eyes, and lumining the spright

   • 1944, The Lamp (volumes 26-30, page 53)

     When canned foods pall, a rifle is a handy bolsterer of the meat supply in this land of wild game; when, in the lonely night, the two geologists have talked through every subject in their ken, a book lumined by a gasoline lamp is a real diversion.

Anagrams

• Nimule, unlime

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu.mi.ne/

Noun

lumine (plural lumines)

1. light

Latin

Noun

l?mine

1. ablative singular of l?men

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lup?nus, from lupus (“wolf”). Piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?.pa?n/
• Hyphenation: lu?pine
• Rhymes: -u?pa?n

Adjective

lupine (comparative more lupine, superlative most lupine)

1. Of, or pertaining to, the wolf.
2. Wolflike; wolfish.
3. Having the characteristics of a wolf.
4. Ravenous.

Synonyms

• (ravenous): ferocious, gluttonous, insatiable, rapacious, voracious

Translations

See also

• canine
• vulpine

Etymology 2

See lupin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?.p?n/

Noun

lupine (plural lupines)

1. US form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants).

Translations

Further reading

• Lupinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lupinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lupinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Lupien, line up, line-up, lineup, pinule, unpile, up line, up-line, upline

Latin

Noun

lup?ne

1. vocative singular of lup?nus