Noun: lobo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | lobo |
| Singular f | loba |
| Plural m | lobos |
| Plural f | lobas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lobo
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós?
3. Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷosder.
4. Proto-Italic *lukʷos
5. Osco-Umbrianbor.?
6. Latin lupus
7. Old Galician-Portuguese lobo
8. Portuguese lobo
9. 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. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
lobo', Old Portuguese Nouns '
lobo', Latin Nouns '
lupus'.
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