lobishome
Galician
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Manuel Blanco Romasanta was condemned in 1853 for 9 assassination; he plead himself not guilty because of his condition of lobishome
Etymology
11th century ("Lubusome", inside a Latin text).[1] From lubus (“wolf”) + home (“man”), perhaps a calque of Germanic: compare Proto-West Germanic *werawulf. Cognate of Portuguese lobisomem.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /loβiˈsɔme̝/
Noun
lobishome m (plural lobishomes)
- (folklore) a werewolf
- 1279, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 37:
- pelos casares do Outeyro e pela fonte do Lubus ome
- by the houses of Outeiro and by the fountain of the werewolf
- pelos casares do Outeyro e pela fonte do Lubus ome
- 1279, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 37:
Synonyms
- lobo da xente
- licántropo
References
- “lubus ome” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “lobishome” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “lobishome” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- "Lubusome" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “lobo I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos