wolf

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
2. (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
3. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
4. A wolf tone or wolf note.
5. (figuratively) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
6. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
7. A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
8. A wolf spider.
9. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
10. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

Verb

1. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
3. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Concetti

lupo

🐺

divorare

pappagallo

🦜

donnaiolo

lupi

sbafare

canis

canis lupus

canis mexicanus

canidi

canide

bestia

pomicione

😘

bruto

calabrone

lupa

sinonimi

gobble

wolf down

devour

wolfish

guzzle

eat

🍽️

gobble up

ladies’ man

brute

scarf out

wild dog

scoff

gray wolf

masher

skirt chaser

wolf’s

dog

🐕

woman chaser

playboy

beast

jackal

wildcat

raven

womanizer

gormandizer

savage

put away

rake

roue

scarf

🧣

she-wolf

stuff

they

this way

timber wolf

tuck away

tuck in

werewolf

wicked

wolves

fress

gulp down

overgorge

grey

waste

shovel in

canis lupus

canis mexicanus

garbage down

canids

Traduzioni

loup

🐺

lobo

🐺

Wolf

🐺

wolf

🐺

lobo

🐺

λύκος

llop

🐺

lupus

🐺

kurt

🐺

lop

Canis lupus

ذئب

🐺

louve

gur

🐺

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wʊlf/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: wolf

Ereditato da inglese antico: wulf

Affine saterfriesisch: Wulf

Affine olandese: wolf

Affine tedesco: Wolf

Affine norvegese: -

Affine danese: ulv

Affine sanscrito: वृक

Affine persiano: گرگ

Affine lituano: vilkas

Affine russo: волк

Affine albanese: ujk

Affine latino: lupus

Affine greco: λύκος

Affine Tokharian B: walkwe

In summary

Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. See also Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe. Doublet of lobo and lupus.