Etymograph

English

lobo

Lobo comes from Spanish lobo ‘wolf’.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentlobo‘wolf’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1983same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentlobo‘wolf’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1983same form

Earliest quotation: 1983, David Earl Brown: “We used to pay a $20.00 bounty a head…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos ‘wolf’

wolf, lupine, 10 more

through Latin lupus ‘wolf (Canis lupus)’

lupus, lupin, 4 more

through Spanish lobo ‘wolf’

loafer, 1 more

Today it means

noun A wolf.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Spanish lobo / lobo

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