robalo

robalo

See also: róbalo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish robalo.

Noun

robalo (plural robalos)

1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Anagrams

• Barolo

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Galician

Robaliza

Etymology

Attested as appelative 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

• Robaleira
• robaliza

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, issue 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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁoˈba.lu/ [hoˈba.lu]

• (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, 2003–2023.

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• róbalo

Etymology

Metathesis of lobarro, diminutive of lobo

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

• “robalo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014