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Re: etymology of latin 'ulpiano' and 'lupian'
I don't know about Ulpiano, but Lupian probably comes from "lupus", the wolf?
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lup probably does come from lupus, and ian means belonging to, so translated I guess this name means belonging to the wolf?
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-ianus simply forms adjectives base on the root noun, so it has a wide range of meanings depending on context, not just "belonging to", including "of" "for" "beside" "from" "like" etc.Ulpiano seems to signify someone from a location (e.g. Municipum Ulpiana in Kosovo) named for the Ulpii family or an individual of the family, esp. emperor Marcus Ulpius Trajan. Ulpius/Ulpia doesn't mean anything in Latin, but the Ulpii were an Umbrian family, so it may be from the poorly recorded Umbrian language and cognate with wolf, lupus, lukos etc.

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