lobo

English

Alternative forms

• loafer (see that entry for more)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈləʊbəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊbəʊ

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

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/,
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

Noun

lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. wolf

Etymology 2

Noun

lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. Alternative form of globo

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:

lobo

Wikipedia ^eo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

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

1. (biology) lobe

Derived terms

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus. Compare Portuguese and Spanish lobo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/
• Rhymes: -obo
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

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

1. wolf

Derived terms

References

• “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

Noun

lobo (plural lobos)

1. lobe

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lobo m (plural lobi)

1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

Anagrams

• bolo, oblò

Latin

Noun

lobō

1. dative/ablative singular of lobus

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lupus (“wolf”).

Noun

lobo m

1. wolf

Derived terms

• arar con os lobos

Descendants

• Galician: lobo
• Portuguese: lobo

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "lobo"

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

lobo

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology 1

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

• lôbo (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -obu
• Homophone: Lobo
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

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

1. wolf (a wild canid)

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

lobo m (plural lobos)

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

Derived terms

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.

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

lobo

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/

• Audio (Spain):

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• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: lo‧bo

Noun

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

1. wolf
2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Hyponyms

• Lobo Feroz (charactonym)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → English: loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bolo

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.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/,
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

• Audio

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

Noun

lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. wolf

   Coordinate term: loba

See also

• asong-gubat

Etymology 2

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

Noun

lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. balloon

Derived terms

See also

• palintog

Further reading

• “lobo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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

References

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