lupus in sermone in Latin

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "From lupus (“wolf”) + in (“in”) + sermōne, the ablative of sermō (“conversation, discussion”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lupus in sermōne",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "intj",
        "head": "lupus in sermōne"
      },
      "expansion": "lupus in sermōne",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "speak of the devil, talk of the devil, talk of the devil, and he will appear, it is he I was speaking of, of a person who comes just as we are talking about him"
      ],
      "id": "en-lupus_in_sermone-la-intj-jlUzY6A5",
      "links": [
        [
          "speak of the devil",
          "speak of the devil"
        ],
        [
          "talk of the devil",
          "talk of the devil"
        ],
        [
          "talk of the devil, and he will appear",
          "talk of the devil, and he will appear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) speak of the devil, talk of the devil, talk of the devil, and he will appear, it is he I was speaking of, of a person who comes just as we are talking about him"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "speak of the devil",
          "word": "lupus in fābulā"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "[ˈɫʊ.pʊs ˈɪn sɛrˈmoː.nɛ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈluː.pus ˈin serˈmɔː.ne]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lupus in sermone"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "From lupus (“wolf”) + in (“in”) + sermōne, the ablative of sermō (“conversation, discussion”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lupus in sermōne",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "intj",
        "head": "lupus in sermōne"
      },
      "expansion": "lupus in sermōne",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin idioms",
        "Latin interjections",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin multiword terms",
        "Latin proverbs",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "speak of the devil, talk of the devil, talk of the devil, and he will appear, it is he I was speaking of, of a person who comes just as we are talking about him"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speak of the devil",
          "speak of the devil"
        ],
        [
          "talk of the devil",
          "talk of the devil"
        ],
        [
          "talk of the devil, and he will appear",
          "talk of the devil, and he will appear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) speak of the devil, talk of the devil, talk of the devil, and he will appear, it is he I was speaking of, of a person who comes just as we are talking about him"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "[ˈɫʊ.pʊs ˈɪn sɛrˈmoː.nɛ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈluː.pus ˈin serˈmɔː.ne]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "speak of the devil",
      "word": "lupus in fābulā"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lupus in sermone"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"lupus in sermone" meaning in Latin

Interjection