diablo

Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of diabolo, devil, diable, and diabolus.

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diablo (plural diablos)

1. (Southwestern US) The or a devil.

diablo (not comparable)

1. (cooking, sometimes postpositive) Synonym of diable (“flavored with hot spices/sauces”).

   a diablo pizza

   a diablo burger

• Diablo (“Diablo wind”)

Borrowed from French diable, from Latin diabolus.

• IPA^(key): /diˈablo/

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• Rhymes: -ablo
• Syllabification: di‧a‧blo

diablo (accusative singular diablon, plural diabloj, accusative plural diablojn)

1. devil

• diabolo (very early Old Spanish, 10th century)

From earlier diabolo, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjablo/

diablo m (plural diablos)

1. devil
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 31r. b.:

     O xp̃s ayuno .xl. dias & .xl. noches alli ſuſo en el mõt o quiſo tentar el diablo a xp̃s.

     [O Cristo ayunó quaraenta dias e quaraenta noches. Allí suso en el mont o quiso tentar el diablo a Cristo.]

     Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There atop the mountain the Devil tried to tempt Christ.

   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 80r. b.:

     sobrela buelta da q̃l tenple el diablo q̃so tẽptar a ih̃u x̊

     [sobre la buelta d'aquel temple el diablo quiso temptar a Jhesu Cristo]

     on the roof of that temple the Devil tried to tempt Jesus Christ

• Ladino: diavlo
• Spanish: diablo, diaulo (Chile, colloquial, rare)
  • → English: diablo
  • → Tagalog: diyablo

From diabli +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdja.blɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ablɔ
• Syllabification: dia‧blo

diablo (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) very, very much

   Synonym: bardzo

• diablo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• diablo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• diaulo (Chile, colloquial, rare)

Inherited from Old Spanish diablo, diabolo (compare Ladino diavlo), a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjablo/ [ˈd̪ja.β̞lo]

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• Rhymes: -ablo
• Syllabification: dia‧blo

diablo m (plural diablos, feminine diabla, feminine plural diablas)

1. devil
2. (Mexico) crowbar, wrecking bar, jemmy, jimmy, prybar, pinchbar, nail bar

   Synonyms: (Mexico) diablito, pie de cabra, pata de cabra, barreta, palanca

• → English: diablo
• → Tagalog: diyablo

• “diablo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “diablo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “diablo”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
• diablo | Diccionario • DELE Ahora