lobo
Meaning
- (masculine) wolf
- (Spain,dated,masculine) drunkenness
Frequency
Hyphenated as
lo鈥o
Gender
鈾傦笍 Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/藞lobo/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin lupus, which was borrowed from an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *luk史os, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *w暮胎k史os. 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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