loupe

See also: Loupe and loupé

English

Dental loupes

Etymology

Borrowed from French loupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp
• Homophone: loop

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 […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213:

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

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 235:

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

   • 2026 April 24, Robert Klose, “Fix my watch, tell me a story”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The watchmaker himself, a white-haired éminence grise, was bent over his work, a jeweler’s loupe in his eye, when I walked in.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

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

Derived terms

• under the loupe

Translations

magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers

• Bulgarian: лупа (bg) f (lupa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放大鏡 / 放大镜 (zh) (fàngdàjìng)

• Czech: lupa (cs) f
• Dutch: loep (nl)
• Esperanto: lupeo
• Finnish: luuppi (fi)
• French: loupe (fr) f
• German: Lupe (de) f, Vergrößerungsglas (de) n
• Hungarian: (kézi) nagyító, nagyítóüveg (hu), lupe (hu)
• Ido: lupo (io)
• Japanese: ルーペ (ja) (rūpe)
• Polish: lupa (pl) f
• Portuguese: lupa (pt)
• Russian: лу́па (ru) f (lúpa), увеличи́тельное стекло́ (ru) n (uveličítelʹnoje stekló)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лупа f, увеличавајуће стакло n

  Latin: lupa (sh) f, uveličavajuće staklo n

• Swedish: lupp (sv) n or n pl
• Turkish: büyüteç (tr), pertavsız (tr)

type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists

• Finnish: luuppi (fi)
• Italian: occhiali ingrandenti pl
• Russian: лу́па (ru) f (lúpa)

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”), of uncertain origin, though probably from Frankish *luppa (“something pendulous”), from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“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/

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• 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. (metallurgy) bloom, the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process
6. (slang) laziness

   Synonym: flemme

Descendants

• → Catalan: lupa
• → Danish: lup
• → Dutch: loep
  • → Indonesian: lup
• → English: loupe
• → Estonian: luup
• → Finnish: luuppi
• → German: Lupe
  • Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe)
  • Korean: 루페 (rupe)
• → Luxembourgish: Lupp
• → Polish: lupa
• → Portuguese: lupa
• → Romanian: lupă
• → Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
• → Spanish: lupa
  • → Basque: lupa
• → Swedish: lupp
• → Vietnamese: kính lúp

Further reading

• “loupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• poule

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Limburgish loupen, from Old Limburgish loupan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯.pə/
• Rhymes: -ɔu̯pə

Verb

loupe (third-person singular present löppt, preterite léïp, past participle geloupe, auxiliary verb séëne) (Eupen)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to walk; to jog; to run (to move on foot; either at a normal or an increased speed)
2. (intransitive, of a fluid) to flow; to leak; to run
3. (intransitive, of an event) to be in progress; to run
4. (intransitive, of an event) to be in order; to work; to function
5. (intransitive, of time) to pass; to flow

Conjugation

Irregular with past tense (Eupen dialect)
infinitive	loupe
participle	geloupe
auxiliary	séëne
	present indicative	past indicative	conditional	imperative
1st singular	loup	léïp	lääp	—
2nd singular	löpps	léïps	lääps	loup
3rd singular	löppt	léïp	lääp	—
1st plural	loupe	léïpe	lääpe	—
2nd plural	loppt	léïpt	lääpt	loppt
3rd plural	loupe	léïpe	lääpe	—

Old French

Noun

loupe oblique singular, 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
  • → Catalan: lupa
  • → Danish: lup
  • → Dutch: loep
    • → Indonesian: lup
  • → English: loupe
  • → Estonian: luup
  • → Finnish: luuppi
  • → German: Lupe
    • Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe)
    • Korean: 루페 (rupe)
  • → Luxembourgish: Lupp
  • → Polish: lupa
  • → Portuguese: lupa
  • → Romanian: lupă
  • → Russian: лу́па (lúpa)
  • → Spanish: lupa
    • → Basque: lupa
  • → Swedish: lupp
  • → Vietnamese: kính lúp