diablo
English
Etymology 2
From French diable (“devil”), from Old French.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [diˈablo]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -ablo
- Hyphenation: di‧a‧blo
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- diabolo (very early Old Spanish, 10th century)
Etymology
From earlier diabolo, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjaβlo/
Noun
diablo m (plural diablos)
- devil
- c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r. b.
- O xp̃s ayuno .xl. dias & .xl. noches alli ſuſo en el mõt o quiſo tentar el diablo a xp̃s.
- Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There atop the mountain the Devil tried to tempt Christ.
- Idem, f. 80r. b.
- sobrela buelta da q̃l tenple el diablo q̃so tẽptar a ih̃u x̊
- on the roof of that temple the Devil tried to tempt Jesus Christ
- c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r. b.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjab.lɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ablɔ
- Syllabification: diab‧lo
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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish diablo, diabolo (compare Ladino diavlo), a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjablo/ [ˈd̪ja.β̞lo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ablo
- Syllabification: dia‧blo
Noun
diablo m (plural diablos, feminine diabla, feminine plural diablas)
- devil
- (Mexico) crowbar, wrecking bar, jemmy, jimmy, prybar, pinchbar, nail bar
- Synonyms: (Mexico) diablito, pie de cabra, pata de cabra, barreta, palanca
Derived terms
- abogado del diablo
- árbol del diablo
- caballito del diablo
- caballo del diablo
- con mil diablos
- darse al diablo
- diablo cojuelo
- el diablo está en los detalles
- endiablar
- más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo
- nabo del diablo
- patín del diablo
- pepinillo del diablo
- pepino del diablo
- pez del diablo
- salir como alma que lleva el diablo
- tentar al diablo
Related terms
References
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “diablo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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