lobo
Meaning
wolf (a wild canid)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
lo‧bo
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlo.bu/
Etymology
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.
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