diabolo

Borrowed from French diabolo, from older diable (literally “devil”), fancifully altered after cognate Italian diavolo and/or their common source, Latin diabolus. First attested in the early 20th century.

The Latin noun is from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “devil”), itself derived from the verb διαβάλλω (diabállō, “to slander”, literally “to throw across”). The notion that this literal sense of “throw across” could be applied to the diabolo itself has led some commentators to assume a direct semantic connection, but there is no evidence suggesting that it is anything other than a coincidence.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈæbələʊ/

diabolo (plural diabolos)

1. A juggling apparatus consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string attached to handsticks.

• Chinese yo-yo

• polyabolo

• bioload

From English diabolo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑbolo/, [ˈdiɑ̝ˌbo̞lo̞]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification^(key): di‧a‧bo‧lo

diabolo

1. (countable) diabolo (juggling apparatus)

   Synonym: lentojojo

2. (uncountable) diabolo (activity of playing with diabolo)

   Synonyms: lentojojoilu, lentojojourheilu

• IPA^(key): /dja.bo.lo/

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diabolo m (plural diabolos)

1. (juggling) diabolo
2. a sort of sugary non-alcoholic drink

• → Portuguese: diabolô, diábolo

• “diabolo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

diabolo

1. (religion, mythology) devil

Borrowed from French diabolo, derived from diabolique (“diabolical”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdja.bo.lo/
• Rhymes: -abolo
• Hyphenation: dià‧bo‧lo

diabolo m (uncountable)

1. (juggling) diabolo

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

diabolō

1. dative/ablative singular of diabolus

Borrowed from French diabolo. Doublet of diabeł.

• IPA^(key): /djaˈbɔ.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
• Syllabification: dia‧bo‧lo

diabolo n (indeclinable)

1. diabolo (juggling apparatus consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string attached to handsticks)
2. diabolo (activity of playing with diabolo)

• diabolo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• diabolo in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French diabolo.

diabolo n (uncountable)

1. diabolo