Wiktionary

lobo

See also: Lobo and lôbo

English

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Alternative forms

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  • loafer (see that entry for more)

Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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

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Bikol Central

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈl̪o.bo]
  • Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

Noun

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lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. wolf

Etymology 2

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Noun

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lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. Alternative form of globo

Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlobo]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -obo
  • Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

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

  1. (biology) lobe

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Galician

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈlo.β̞ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -obo
  • Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

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

  1. wolf

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Interlingua

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Noun

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lobo (plural lobos)

  1. lobe

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

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lobo m (plural lobi)

  1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

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Latin

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Noun

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lobō

  1. dative/ablative singular of lobus

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lupus (“wolf”).

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lobo m (plural lobos)

  1. wolf

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Descendants

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  • Galician: lobo
  • Portuguese: lobo

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Portuguese

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Um lobo.

Etymology 1

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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

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Noun

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

  1. wolf (a wild canid)
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Etymology 2

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

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  • Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Noun

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lobo m (plural lobos)

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

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Etymology

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

Pronoun

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lobo

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Spanish

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Un lobo.

Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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

  1. wolf
  2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

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Descendants

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Further reading

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Swazi

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Etymology

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

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lobo

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

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lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. wolf
    Coordinate term: loba
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Etymology 2

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

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lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. balloon
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Further reading

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

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Zulu

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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lobo

  1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Inflection

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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

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