lobo
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- loafer (see that entry for more)
Etymology[edit]
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
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
lóbo
- 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)
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]
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. Doublet of globo.
Noun[edit]
lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
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)”
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Rhymes:English/əʊbəʊ
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- it:Anatomy
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/obu
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- pt:Anatomy
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- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/obo
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- es:Canids
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