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Latin
Etymology
Via regular assibilation as also happened in Aeolic Ancient Greek ζάβολος (zábolos).
Pronunciation
Noun
zabolus m (genitive zabolī); second declension
- Alternative form of diabolus.
Further reading
- “Zābŭlus or Zābŏlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ZABULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- zābŏlus ou zābŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,700/1”
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “zabolus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,138/1