different between northern vs puppis

English

Etymology

From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-Germanic *nurþr?nijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordr?ni and Old Norse norrœnn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??ð?n/, /?n??ðn?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n??ð?n/, enPR: nôr?th?rn
• (non-standard) IPA^(key): /?n?ð?(?)n/

Adjective

northern (comparative more northern, superlative most northern)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north;northerly.
2. (of a wind) Blowing from the north; northerly.
3. (Britain) Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised)

Synonyms

• boreal
• septentrional

Antonyms

• austral
• meridional
• southern

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• eastern
• occidental
• oriental
• western

Noun

northern (plural northerns)

1. An inhabitant of the northern regions.
2. (fishing) The northern pike.
   • 1993, Barry Reynolds, John Berryman, Pike on the Fly: The Flyfishing Guide to Northerns, Tigers, and Muskies

     As is the case with northerns, the female muskie, trailed by her attendant males, may broadcast eggs over several hundred yards.

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain etymology. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (“bottom, rear”) and Ancient Greek ??????? (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”) << *h?epó (“away, off”), with some uncertainty. Muss-Arnolt compares Hebrew ???? (b??, “to be hollow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pup.pis/, [?p?p??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pup.pis/, [?pup?is]

Noun

puppis f (genitive puppis); third declension

1. stern, poop of a ship
2. (by extension) a ship
3. (figuratively) backside of a person

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -? or -e).

Synonyms

• (ship): n?vis

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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