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 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

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

Anagrams

• BOLO, bloo, bolo, bool, loob, obol

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/
• Rhymes: -obo

Noun

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

1. (biology) lobe

Derived terms

• nazlobo (“nostril”)
• trilobulo (“trilobite”)

 

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-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

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lobo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “lobo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Interlingua

Noun

lobo (plural lobos)

1. lobe

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Italian

Noun

lobo m (plural lobi)

1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

Anagrams

• bolo, oblò

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) lobō

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

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Portuguese

Um lobo.

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-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

• lôbo (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.βu/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.bu/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.bo/
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

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

1. wolf (a wild canid)

Derived terms

• lobão (augmentative)
• lobinho, lobozinho (diminutives)

 

• entre o cão e o lobo
• lobacho
• lobato
• lobo do mar
• lobo-cerval
• lobo-da-alsácia
• lobo-gato
• lobo-guará
• lobo-marinho
• lobo-tigre
• lúpus

 

Related terms

• lupino

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.βu/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.bu/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.bo/
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

lobo m (plural s)

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

Derived terms

• lobo frontal
• lobo occipital
• lobo parietal
• lobo temporal
• lobotomia

 

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Southern Ndebele

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

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Spanish

Un lobo.

Etymology

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

• Cognate with French loup, Italian lupo, Portuguese lobo, Romanian lup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈlo.β̞o]

Noun

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

1. wolf
2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness

Synonyms

• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.

Hyponyms

• Lobo feroz (charactonym)

Derived terms

• hombre lobo
• lobanillo
• lobato
• lobo con piel de cordero
• lobo marino
• ver las orejas al lobo

 

Related terms

• lobezno
• lobuno
• lupia
• lupino

 

Anagrams

• lobo

Further reading

• “lobo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swazi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish lobo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlobo]

• Audio:

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Noun

lobo

1. balloon
2. wolf

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Zulu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “loɓo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “loɓo (3.9)”