lobo

See also: Lobo and lôbo

English

Alternative forms

  • loafer (see that entry for more)

Etymology

From American Spanish lobo (wolf).

Noun

lobo (plural lobos)

  1. (Southwestern US dialectal) 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

  • Often used in compound with "wolf": "lobo wolf".

Anagrams


Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlobo/
  • Rhymes: -obo

Noun

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

  1. (biology) lobe

Derived terms


Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloβo̝/

Noun

lobo m (plural lobos)

  1. wolf

Derived terms

  • Cabeza de Lobo
  • Covas do Lobo
  • Fonte do Lobo
  • lobeira
  • Lobeira
  • lobishome
  • Loboso
  • Matalobos
  • Pedra de Lobo

References

  • lobo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • lobo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • 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

Noun

lobo (plural lobos)

  1. lobo

Italian

Noun

lobo m (plural lobi)

  1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

Anagrams


Latin

Noun

lobō

  1. dative singular of lobus
  2. ablative singular of lobus

Portuguese

Um lobo.

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus (wolf), from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lúpus, a borrowing.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. wolf (a wild canid)
Derived terms
  • lobão (augmentative)
  • lobinho, lobozinho (diminutives)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, earlobe).

Pronunciation

Noun

lobo m (plural lobos)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lupus, from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lupus, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlobo/, [ˈloβo]

Noun

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

  1. wolf
  2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading


Swazi

Etymology

Pronoun

lobo

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish lobo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlobo]
  • (file)

Noun

lobo

  1. balloon
  2. wolf

Zulu

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lóːɓo/

Pronoun

lobo

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Inflection

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

References

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