popa

See also: Popa, pöpa, popã, and popă

Asturian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpopa/ [ˈpo.pa]
• Rhymes: -opa
• Hyphenation: po‧pa

Noun

popa f (plural popes)

1. stern, poop

   Synonym: proba

Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

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
• de popa a proa
• empopar
• poper

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

popa f (plural popes)

1. (colloquial, Lleida) boob, titty

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Romanian popa and/or Russian поп (pop).

Pronunciation

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

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) pope (any Russian Orthodox priest)

References

• “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, 2025
• “popa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cornish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

popa m (plural popys)

1. puffin

   Synonym: nath

Mutation

Mutation of popa

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
popa	bopa	fopa	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

Fala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpopa/
• Rhymes: -opa
• Syllabification: po‧pa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin upupa.

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. (Valverdeñu) a hoopoe, especially a Eurasian hoopoe

   Synonyms: galu de campu (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu), abubilla (Mañegu, Valverdeñu)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese popa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa.

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. stern, poop

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: popas, popât

Verb

popa

1. third-person singular past historic of poper

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpopa/ [ˈpo.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -opa
• Hyphenation: po‧pa

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. stern, poop

   Antonym: proa

Guaraní

Numeral

popa

1. fifty

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

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/

• Audio:

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Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. (nautical) stern, poop

Antonyms

• proa

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pɐ/

• Homophone: poupa
• Hyphenation: po‧pa

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. (nautical) stern, poop

   Antonym: proa

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpopa/ [ˈpo.pa]
• Rhymes: -opa
• Syllabification: po‧pa

Noun

popa f (plural popas)

1. stern (back of a boat or ship)

   Antonym: proa

Derived terms

• a popa
• de popa a proa
• 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