Latin

Proper noun

Luperca f ‎(genitive Lupercae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) A goddess of the old Romans, the wife of Lupercus, identified with the deified she-wolf that suckled Rōmulus and Remus, and perhaps also identical with Acca Lārentia.

Declension

First declension.

Descendants

• Russian: Лу́перка ‎(Lúperka)

References

• Lŭperca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Luperca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 927/3.
• “Luperca” on page 1,051/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)