popa

See also: Popa, pöpa, popã, and popă

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis (“stern”), possibly with influence from prora (“prow”).

Noun

popa f (plural popes)

1. stern, poop

Antonyms

• proba

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpo.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpo.pa]

Etymology 1

From , from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis (“stern”), possibly with influence from prora (“prow”).

Noun

popa f (plural popes)

1. stern, poop

   Antonym: proa

   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 1, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Feia trenta-tres dies que els dofins havien renunciat a la nostra popa i dinou que la tripulació expel·lia núvols de baf per la boca.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• anar en popa
• anar vent en popa

Etymology 2

From Latin puppa, variant of pūpa (“girl”).

Noun

popa f (plural popes)

1. (colloquial, Lleida) boob, titty

Further reading

• “popa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “popa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “popa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: popas, popât

Verb

popa

1. third-person singular past historic of poper

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese popa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis (“stern”), possibly with influence from prora (“prow”).

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. stern, poop

Antonyms

• proa

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Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pa/, [ˈpɔpä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pa/, [ˈpɔːpä]

Noun

popa m (genitive popae); first declension

1. A priest's assistant (at a sacrifice)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	popa	popae
genitive	popae	popārum
dative	popae	popīs
accusative	popam	popās
ablative	popā	popīs
vocative	popa	popae

Noun

popa f (genitive popae); first declension

1. A woman who sold animals for sacrifice

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	popa	popae
genitive	popae	popārum
dative	popae	popīs
accusative	popam	popās
ablative	popā	popīs
vocative	popa	popae

Descendants

• → Portuguese: popa

References

• “popa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “popa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• popa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• popa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “popa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “popa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan popa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis (“stern”), possibly with influence from prora (“prow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pɒ/

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Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. (nautical) stern, poop

Antonyms

• proa

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese popa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis (“stern”), possibly with influence from prora (“prow”).

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. stern, poop

Antonyms

• proa

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish popa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis (“stern”), possibly with influence from prora (“prow”).

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. stern (back of a boat or ship)

   Antonym: proa

Derived terms

• a popa
• viento en popa

Further reading

• “popa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10