lobo

Meaning

1. (masculine) wolf
2. (Spain, dated, masculine) drunkenness

Concepts

wolf

🐺

grey wolf

wolves

gray wolf

fox

🦊

loach

canis mexicanus

meadow brown

canid

he-wolf

hound

lobe

pup

timber wolf

canis lupus

Synonyms

loba

lubina

lobo gris

zorro

🦊

lobezno

lyc

robo

colmilleja

canis lupus

canis mexicanus

salvaje

zorra

Hyphenated as

lo‧bo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlobo/

Etymology

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.