lobo

• loafer (see that entry for more)

Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈləʊbəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊbəʊ

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."

• Often used in compound with "wolf": "lobo wolf".

• BOLO, bloo, bolo, bool, loob, obol

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dób.

lobo

1. to fish with hook

lobo

1. summer

• 欧阳觉亚 (1985), “lobo”, in 珞巴族語言简志:崩尼-博嘎尔语‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社, →OCLC, page 94

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈl̪o.bo]
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. wolf

lóbo (Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. alternative form of globo

From Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: lo‧bo

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

1. lobe

From Spanish lobo, from Old Spanish lobo, from Latin lupus.

lobo

1. wolf
   • 1975, Estado de México Otomi New Testament:

     Nu car ttömödi, ca jí̱ ʉ́r jmu̱ cʉ dɛjti, bbʉ ga jianti ya xpa e̱h car lobo, i jɛjti cʉ dɛjti, i ddajtjo. Car lobo ya, ba fonti cʉ dɛjti cja̱ ba tzʉh cʉ ddaa.

     But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

• llobo (Galician-Asturian)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus. Compare Portuguese and Spanish lobo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈlo.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

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

1. wolf

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lobo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lobo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lobo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• bolo

lobo (plural lobos)

1. lobe

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɔbo
• Hyphenation: lò‧bo

lobo m (plural lobi)

1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

• bolo, oblò

lobō

1. dative/ablative singular of lobus

Borrowed from Bangi lobo.

lobo

1. to fish

• llobo

Inherited from Latin lupus (“wolf”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/
• Rhymes: -obo
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

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

1. wolf

• Fala: lobu
• Galician: lobo
• Portuguese: lobo

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “lobo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “lobo”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “lobo”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “lobo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• bolo

• lovo

From Latin lupus.

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

1. wolf
   • c. 1260, Alfonso X, Livro de las legies:

     E con esta se asman las cosas naturalmientre quales son amigas o enemigas, magar no fuessen prouadas por assi cuemo el cordero que connosce al lobo por su enemigo, magar nunqua lo aya uisto.

     And with this things are naturally known as to whether they are friends or enemies, so that they are not tested like the lamb that meets the wolf for his enemy although he has never seen him.

• Ladino: lovo
• Spanish: lobo (see there for further descendants)

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “lobo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 309
• “lobo”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia: University of Murcia, 2013–2024

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.

• lôbo (pre-reform spelling)

• Rhymes: -obu
• Homophone: Lobo
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

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

1. wolf (a wild canid)

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

• Rhymes: -ɔbu
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

lobo m (plural lobos)

1. (anatomy) lobe (division of the brain)

• “lobo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “lobo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• bolo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

Inherited from Old Spanish lobo, from Latin lupus, which was borrowed from an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lupus and Lope, the former a learned borrowing from Latin, the latter a proper name borrowed via Basque. Romance cognates include French loup, Italian lupo, Galician and Portuguese lobo, Romanian lup.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈlo.β̞o]

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: lo‧bo

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

1. wolf
2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

• Lobo Feroz (charactonym)

• → English: loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover
• → Tagalog: lobo
• → Estado de México Otomi: lobo

• “lobo”, 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

• bolo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/ [ˈloː.bo]

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: lo‧bo

Borrowed from Spanish lobo.

lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. wolf

   Coordinate term: loba

• asong-gubat

Borrowed from Spanish globo with apheresis, from Latin globus. Doublet of globo.

lobo (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜊᜓ)

1. balloon

• palintog

• “lobo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• Bool, loob, bolo, oblo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /lóːɓo/

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

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