Diablo
English
Etymology
From Spanish diablo (“devil”).
Noun
Diablo (plural Diablos)
- A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.
- A Diablo wind.
- 1998 02, McCormack's Guides, Incorporated, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma, McCormack's Guides, →ISBN:
- […] a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […]
- 2016 March 31, Stephen J. Pyne, California: A Fire Survey, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 161:
- […] a Diablo wind drove flames through the Berkeley Hills and into the campus of the University of California. Some 3,100 acres and 584 houses burned. Ten years later a Diablo-driven fire scorched a thousand acres and five homes. In 1946 […]
Proper noun
Diablo
Further reading
- Lamborghini Diablo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Spanish
Etymology
See diablo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjablo/ [ˈd̪ja.β̞lo]
- Rhymes: -ablo
- Syllabification: Dia‧blo
- Homophone: diablo
Proper noun
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