lobo
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- loafer (see that entry for more)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lobo (plural lobos)
- (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf.
- 1983, David Earl Brown, The Wolf in the Southwest: the making of an endangered species:
- We used to pay a $20.00 bounty a head on lobos for a good many years, but stopped it because it was abused. Lobo scalps from Arizona, [...]
- 2001, Joseph A. West, Johnny Blue and the Hanging Judge, page 43:
- "That may be so," Donnelly allowed, "but there desperate men around these parts, especially wolfers who have been collecting bounties for lobo scalps since the big snows of the Hard Winter."
Usage notes edit
- Often used in compound with "wolf": "lobo wolf".
Anagrams edit
Bikol Central edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)
- Alternative form of globo.
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lobo (accusative singular lobon, plural loboj, accusative plural lobojn)
Derived terms edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus. Compare Portuguese and Spanish lobo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “lobo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “lobo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “lobo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “lobo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “lobo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
lobo (plural lobos)
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lobo m (plural lobi)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
lobō
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin lupus (“wolf”).
Noun edit
lobo m
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus (“wolf”), from an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Compare Galician and Spanish lobo. Doublet of lúpus, a borrowing.
Alternative forms edit
- lôbo (obsolete)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)
- wolf (a wild canid)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “earlobe”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: lo‧bo
Noun edit
lobo m (plural lobos)
Derived terms edit
Southern Ndebele edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronoun edit
lobo
- that; class 14 distal demonstrative.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin lupus, which was borrowed from an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lupus and Lope, the former a learned borrowing from Latin, the latter a proper name borrowed via Basque. Romance cognates include French loup, Italian lupo, Galician and Portuguese lobo, Romanian lup.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈlo.β̞o]
Audio (Spain): (file) Audio (Peru): (file) - Rhymes: -obo
- Syllabification: lo‧bo
Noun edit
lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)
- wolf
- (Spain, dated) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
Hyponyms edit
- Lobo Feroz (charactonym)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “lobo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams edit
Swazi edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronoun edit
lobo
- that; class 14 distal demonstrative.
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish globo with apheresis, from Latin globus. Doublet of globo.
Noun edit
lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “lobo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Zulu edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
lobo
- that; class 14 distal demonstrative.
Inflection edit
Stem -lóbo | ||
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Full form | lóbo | |
Locative | kulobo | |
Full form | lóbo | |
Locative | kulobo | |
Copulative | yilobo | |
Possessive forms | ||
Modifier | Substantive | |
Class 1 | walobo | owalobo |
Class 2 | balobo | abalobo |
Class 3 | walobo | owalobo |
Class 4 | yalobo | eyalobo |
Class 5 | lalobo | elalobo |
Class 6 | alobo | awalobo |
Class 7 | salobo | esalobo |
Class 8 | zalobo | ezalobo |
Class 9 | yalobo | eyalobo |
Class 10 | zalobo | ezalobo |
Class 11 | lwalobo | olwalobo |
Class 14 | balobo | obalobo |
Class 15 | kwalobo | okwalobo |
Class 17 | kwalobo | okwalobo |
References edit
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “loɓo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “loɓo (3.9)”