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Meanings

The word may have been coined as a compound of the roots lú or laghu (from Greek: ἐ-λαχύ "small") and corp (from Latin: corpus "body"), or so it had been suggested by Whitley Stokes. Research published in 2019 suggests the word derives from the Luperci and associated Roman festival of Lupercalia.