diablo

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English

Etymology 1

From Spanish diablo (devil).

Noun

diablo (plural diablos)

  1. (Southwestern US) the devil

Etymology 2

From French diable (devil), from Old French.

Adjective

diablo (not comparable)

  1. diable, flavoured with hot spices

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French diable, from Latin diabolus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [diˈablo]
  • Rhymes: -ablo
  • Hyphenation: di‧a‧blo

Noun

diablo (accusative singular diablon, plural diabloj, accusative plural diablojn)

  1. devil

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

  • diabolo (very early Old Spanish, 10th century)

Etymology

From earlier diabolo, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

Pronunciation

Noun

diablo m (plural diablos)

  1. devil
    • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r. b.
      O xp̃s ayuno. xl. dias & .xl. noches alli ſuſo en el mõt o quiſo tentar el diablo a xp̃s.
      Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There atop the mountain the Devil tried to tempt Christ.
    • Idem, f. 80r. b.
      sobrela buelta da q̃l tenple el diablo q̃so tẽptar a ih̃u x̊
      on the roof of that temple the Devil tied to tempt Jesus Christ

Descendants


Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Spanish diablo, diabolo (compare Ladino diavlo), a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos)[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdjablo/ [ˈd̪ja.β̞lo]

Noun

diablo m (plural diablos, feminine diabla, feminine plural diablas)

  1. devil

Derived terms

Descendants

References