puppis

Uncertain. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (“bottom, rear”) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”) << *h₂epó (“away, off”), with some uncertainty.^[1] Muss-Arnolt compares Hebrew בוב (būḇ, “to be hollow”).^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpup.pis/, [ˈpʊpːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpup.pis/, [ˈpupːis]

puppis f (genitive puppis); third declension

1. stern, poop of a ship
2. (by extension) a ship
3. (figuratively) backside of a person

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e).

• (ship): nāvis

• “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “puppis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puppis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• puppis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “puppis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers