lobo

Alternative forms

• loafer (see that entry for more)

Etymology

From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”).

Noun

lobo (plural lobos)

1. (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf.
   • 1983, David Earl Brown, The Wolf in the Southwest: the making of an endangered species:

     We used to pay a $20.00 bounty a head on lobos for a good many years, but stopped it because it was abused. Lobo scalps from Arizona, [...]

   • 2001, Joseph A. West, Johnny Blue and the Hanging Judge, page 43:

     "That may be so," Donnelly allowed, "but there desperate men around these parts, especially wolfers who have been collecting bounties for lobo scalps since the big snows of the Hard Winter."

Anagrams

• BOLO, bloo, bolo, bool, loob, obol

Noun

lobo (accusative singular lobon, plural loboj, accusative plural lobojn)

1. (biology) lobe

Etymology

From Old Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus.

Noun

lobo m (plural lobos)

1. wolf

Noun

lobo m (plural lobi)

1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

Anagrams

• bolo
• oblò

Noun

lobō

1. dative singular of lobus
2. ablative singular of lobus

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus (“wolf”), from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Etymology 2

From New Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “earlobe”).

Etymology

From Latin lupus, from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lupus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈloβo]

Noun

lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf

Etymology

From Spanish lobo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlobo]

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Noun

lobo

1. balloon
2. wolf

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lóːɓo/

Pronoun

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “loɓo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “loɓo (3.9)”