lobo

Meaning

wolf (a wild canid)

Concepts

wolf

🐺

lobe

wolves

pup

grey

canis lupus

canid

canis mexicanus

grey wolf

hound

Synonyms

loba

onça

cão

🐕

canis lupus

canis mexicanus

guará

lóbulo

Translations

lobo

🐺

loup

🐺

lupo

🐺

Wolf

🐺

wolf

🐺

llop

🐺

kurt

🐺

lupus

🐺

λύκος

lop

ذئب

🐺

loba

gur

🐺

louve

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlo.bu/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: lupus

In summary

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