lovo

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lovo (plural lovos)

1. A traditional earthen pit oven in Fiji.

• Volo

Borrowed from Venetan lovo (“wolf”), from Latin lupus. Doublet of lupo and lupus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.vo/
• Rhymes: -ovo
• Hyphenation: ló‧vo

lovo m (plural lovi)

1. (regional, chiefly Veneto) synonym of nasello (“European hake”)

• lovo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• volo

• lobo

Inherited from Old Spanish lobo, lovo, from Latin lupus, which was borrowed from an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Romance cognates include French loup, Italian lupo, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish lobo, & Romanian lup.

lovo m (Hebrew spelling לוב׳ו)^[1]

1. (countable) wolf (Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily) [16th c.]
   • 1991, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Djoha ke dize? Kuentos populares djudeo‐espanyoles‎^[1], כנה:

     Djohá no ezita a tratar mizmo kon el Dio: le propoza un grande korbán kuando está en períkolo de vinir komido por el lovo, ma se arrepiente kuando se salva (paj. 313).

     Djohá does not hesitate to deal with even God: [Djohá] proposes a great sacrifice to Him when [Djohá] is in danger of being eaten by the wolf, but reconsiders when [Djohá] is saved.

lovo m (plural lovos)

1. alternative form of lobo

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “lovo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 311

Inherited from Sanskrit लोह (lohá).^[1] Cognate with Kachchi લો (lo, “iron”).

lovo m (plural love)

1. coin
2. (in the plural) money

From Romani lovo, from Sanskrit लोह (lohá).^[1]

lovo

1. money

• lóvo, łovo, łóvo

Inherited from Latin lupus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.vo/
• Hyphenation: ló‧vo

lovo m (plural lovi, female equivalent lova, feminine plural love)

1. (countable) wolf (Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily)

• → Italian: lovo