robalo

Borrowed from Spanish robalo.

robalo (plural robalos)

1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

• Barolo

Attested as appellative in 1417. From lobarro (attested as nickname, Lobaru, Lobarro, since the 12th century),^[1] cognate with Catalan llobarro (first attested in 1599), from Latin lupus (“wolf”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /roˈβalo̝/

robalo m (plural robalos)

1. large European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
   • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas [...] a quatro dineiros cada libra

     Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of seabasses and of smaller seabasses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams [...], four diñeiros each pound

   Synonym: robaliza (smaller specimens)

• Robaleira
• robaliza

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “robalo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “robalo”, 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), “robalo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “robalo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Catalan llobarro (“small wolf”),^[1] possibly via Spanish robalo.

• Hyphenation: ro‧ba‧lo

robalo m (plural robalos)

1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
2. snook (any fish of the family Centropomidae, especially Centropomus undecimalis)

• IPA^(key): /roˈbalo/ [roˈβ̞a.lo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ro‧ba‧lo

Metathesis of lobarro, diminutive of lobo.

• róbalo

robalo m (plural robalos)

1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

   Synonyms: lubina, sabalo

2. snook (fish of genus Centropomus)

robalo

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of robar combined with lo

• “robalo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024