lobo

• loafer (see that entry for more)

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

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

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."

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

• BOLO, bloo, bolo, bool, loob, obol

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

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

lóbo

1. wolf

lóbo

1. Alternative form of globo.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlobo]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

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

1. (biology) lobe

From Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloβo̝/

lobo m (plural lobos)

1. wolf

• “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.

lobo (plural lobos)

1. lobe

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

lobo m (plural lobi)

1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

• bolo, oblò

lobō

1. dative/ablative singular of lobus

From Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus (“wolf”), from an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lúpus, a borrowing.

• lôbo (obsolete)

• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

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

1. wolf (a wild canid)

• lupino

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

• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

lobo m (plural lobos)

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

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

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

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, Portuguese lobo, Romanian lup.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈlo.β̞o]

• Audio (Spain)

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: lo‧bo

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

1. wolf
2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

• Lobo Feroz (charactonym)

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

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

• bolo

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

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

• Hyphenation: lo‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/, [ˈlo.bo]

• Audio

  (file)

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

lobo

1. wolf

   Coordinate term: loba

• asong-gubat

Borrowed from Spanish globo. Doublet of globo.

lobo

1. balloon

• palintog

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

• IPA^(key): /lóːɓo/

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

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