Masculine
lobo
Meaning
- (masculine) wolf
- (Spain, dated, masculine) drunkenness
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Hyphenated as
lo‧bo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlobo/
Etymology
In summary
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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