Borrowed fromSpanishdiablo(“devil”).Doublet ofdiabolo,devil,diable, anddiabolus.
diablo (pluraldiablos)
- (Southwestern US) thedevil
diablo (notcomparable)
- (cooking, sometimes postpositive)Synonym ofdiable(“flavoured with hot spices”)
adiablo pizza
adiablo burger
Borrowed fromFrenchdiable, fromLatindiabolus.
diablo (accusative singulardiablon,pluraldiabloj,accusative pluraldiablojn)
- devil
- diabolo(very early Old Spanish, 10th century)
From earlierdiabolo, asemi-learned borrowing fromEcclesiastical Latin,Late Latindiabolus, fromAncient Greekδιάβολος(diábolos).
diablo m (pluraldiablos)
- 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 eldiablo a xp̃s.- Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There atop the mountain theDevil tried to tempt Christ.
- Idem, f. 80r. b.
sobrela buelta da q̃l tenple eldiablo q̃so tẽptar a ih̃u x̊- on the roof of that temple theDevil tried to tempt Jesus Christ
Fromdiabli +-o.
- IPA(key): /ˈdja.blɔ/
- Rhymes:-ablɔ
- Syllabification:dia‧blo
diablo (notcomparable)
- (colloquial)very,very much
- Synonym:bardzo
- diablo inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- diablo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Inherited fromOld Spanishdiablo,diabolo (compareLadinodiavlo), a semi-learned borrowing fromEcclesiastical Latin orLate Latindiabolus, fromAncient Greekδιάβολος(diábolos).[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈdjablo/[ˈd̪ja.β̞lo]
- Rhymes:-ablo
- Syllabification:dia‧blo
diablo m (pluraldiablos,femininediabla,feminine pluraldiablas)
- devil
- (Mexico)crowbar,wrecking bar,jemmy,jimmy,prybar,pinchbar,nail bar
- Synonyms:(Mexico)diablito,pie de cabra,pata de cabra,barreta,palanca
- “diablo”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- “diablo”, inDiccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish),Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish:Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española],2010
- “diablo”, inDiccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua,2019
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