Latin origin
Source-reportedFrom Latin Lupus. Intervocalic -p- is unexplained; -b- would be expected.
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- Wiktionary: LopoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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01 / Meaning & origin
Lopo is a masculine given name documented in Portuguese. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Lupus.
From Latin Lupus. Intervocalic -p- is unexplained; -b- would be expected.
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04 / Through time
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Lopo— “God’s praise”
Germany also has a Gottleip, the same with the old Anglo-Saxon Guthlaf, meaning the leavings of God, or remains of Divinity, but which has been made in modern German into Gottlieb, or love, and contracted in Lower Lusatia into Lipo; in Dantzic, into Lipp. There are several of these modern devotional German names, such as Gottlob, the very same in meaning as belonged to the Speaker of the Rump, Praise God Barebones, but has been continued as Lopo, or Lopko, in Lusatia. In…
Germany also has a Gottleip, the same with the old Anglo-Saxon Guthlaf, meaning the leavings of God, or remains of Divinity, but which has been made in modern German into Gottlieb, or love, and contracted in Lower Lusatia into Lipo; in Dantzic, into Lipp. There are several of these modern devotional German names, such as Gottlob, the very same in meaning as belonged to the Speaker of the Rump, Praise God Barebones, but has been continued as Lopo, or Lopko, in Lusatia. In fact, the Moravians use these appellations, and thus we have the modern coinage of Gottgetreu, Gotthilf, and Gotthilfe, and even of Gottsei-mit-dir, much like the Diotisalvi of Italy, and not without parallel among the early Christians.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section I (Guth) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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third Governor of Portuguese India
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