See also: Lobo and lôbo

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)

  1. (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

  • IPA(key): /ˈlobo/, [ˈl̪o.bo]
  • Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

Noun edit

lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. wolf

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. Alternative form of globo.

Esperanto edit

 
Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo

Etymology edit

From Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈlobo]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -obo
  • Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun edit

lobo (accusative singular lobon, plural loboj, accusative plural lobojn)

  1. (biology) lobe

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)

  1. wolf

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)

  1. lobe

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔ.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔbo
  • Hyphenation: lò‧bo

Noun edit

lobo m (plural lobi)

  1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Noun edit

lobō

  1. dative/ablative singular of lobus

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin lupus (wolf).

Noun edit

lobo m

  1. wolf

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Galician: lobo
  • Portuguese: lobo

Further reading edit

Portuguese edit

 
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt
 
Um lobo.

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

Pronunciation edit

 

Noun edit

lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

  1. 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)

  1. (anatomy) lobe (division of the brain)
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

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Spanish edit

 
Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es
 
Un lobo.

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)

  1. wolf
  2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Hyponyms edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

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

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Tagalog edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: lo‧bo
  • IPA(key): /ˈlobo/, [ˈlo.bo]
  • (file)

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

Noun edit

lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. wolf
    Coordinate term: loba
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Spanish globo with apheresis, from Latin globus. Doublet of globo.

Noun edit

lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. balloon
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

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Inflection edit

Stem -lóbo
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

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