Etymology

Lepus

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Today it means: A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion. Full definition →

Latin lepus
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromlepus
  2. Latin · borrowed fromlepus
  3. English todayLepus

Borrowed from Latin lepus (“rabbit, hare”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.