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LUPERCALIA

Definition: LUPERCALIA

LUPERCALIA

Noun plural

1. A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Lupercalia \Lu`per*ca"li*a\, plural noun. [Latin expression luperealis, from Lupercus the Lycean Pan, so called from lupus wolf, because he kept off the wolves.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: LUPERCALIA

English words defined with "LUPERCALIA": Lupercal. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Lupercalia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Lupercalia was an Roman annual festival held in February 15 to honour Faunus, god of fertility and forests. Faunus was also called Lupercus, the one who wards off the wolf. The festival was celebrated near the cave of Lupercal in the Palatine (one of the seven roman hills), to expiate and purify new life in the Spring. This festival's origins are older than the founding of Rome.

The religious ceremonies were directed by the Luperci, the "brothers of the wolf", priests of Faunus, dressed only with a goatskin. During Lupercalia, a dog and two male goats were sacrificed. Two youths were anointed with the blood and afterwards ran round the Palatine Hill with thongs cut from the sacrificed goats in their hands called Februa. Girls would line up in their way to receive lashes from these whips. This was supposed to insure fertility. The name of the month of February is derived from the Latin februare, "to purify" (meant as one of the effects of fever, that has the same linguistic root).

In 494, the Lupercalia was peplaced by the Candelmas, the feast of the Purification of the Virgin.

See also: Roman festivals – Roman mythology

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lupercalia."

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Commercial Usage: LUPERCALIA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LUPERCALIA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lupercalia

7

festival lupercalia

3
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Rhyming with "LUPERCALIA"

Words rhyming with "LUPERCALIA" (pronounced 'Lu`per*ca"li*a'): Abdominalia, Acholia, Alalia, Antlia, Aurelia, Bacchanalia, Cerealia, Coelia, Dahlia, Generalia, Grindelia, Linguatulida, lobelia, magnolia, Mammalia, Marginalia, melancholia, Nebalia, Neuroglia, Paraphernalia, Penetralia, Physalia, Prosocoelia, Pseudocoelia, Quinquennalia, replica, Rosalia, Saturnalia, stapelia. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LUPERCALIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-l-p-r-u"

-2 letters: calliper, peculiar, piacular.

-3 letters: auricle, caliper, carpale, pallier, peculia, perilla, pilular, pleural, replica.

-4 letters: aculei, aecial, aerial, allure, alulae, alular, apercu, apical, caller, carpal, carpel, cellar, culler, culpae, curiae, curial, earlap, eclair, epical, lacier, laical, laurae, laurel, paella, palace, paleal, palier, pallia, parcel, picara, pillar, pilule, placer, plaice, pleura, plicae, plical, plural, puller.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-l-p-r-u"
 

+4 letters: alphanumerical.

 

+5 letters: neuropathically, preagricultural, therapeutically.

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Alternative Orthography: LUPERCALIA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 55 50 45 52 43 41 4C 49 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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