robalo

See also: róbalo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish robalo.

Noun

robalo (plural robalos)

  1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Anagrams

Galician
Robaliza

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /roˈβalo̝/

Noun

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)

Derived terms

References
  • “robalo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “robalo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “robalo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “robalo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Martínez Lema, Paulo (2017) “Léxico y onomástica personal en la documentación medieval gallego-portuguesa”, in Rivista Italiana di Onomastica‎, volume XXIII, number 1, retrieved 9 February 2020, pages 71-88
  2. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “róbalo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁoˈba.lu/ [hoˈba.lu]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁoˈba.lu/ [χoˈba.lu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁoˈba.lo/ [hoˈba.lo]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁuˈba.lu/ [ʁuˈβa.lu]

  • Hyphenation: ro‧ba‧lo

Noun

robalo m (plural robalos)

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

References
  1. “robalo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish

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

Etymology 1

Metathesis of lobarro, diminutive of lobo.

Alternative forms

Noun

robalo m (plural robalos)

  1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
    Synonyms: lubina, sabalo
  2. snook (fish of genus Centropomus)

Verb

robalo

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

Further reading
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