# robalo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish robalo.

### Noun

robalo (plural robalos)
* European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

### Anagrams

* Barolo

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested as appellative in 1417. From lobarro (attested as nickname, Lobaru, Lobarro, since the 12th century), cognate with Catalan llobarro (first attested in 1599), from Latin lupus (“wolf”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /roˈβalo̝/

### Noun

robalo m (plural robalos)
* 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

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “robalo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “robalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “robalo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “robalo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “róbalo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁoˈba.lu/ [hoˈba.lu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁoˈba.lu/ [hoˈba.lu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁoˈba.lu/ [χoˈba.lu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁoˈba.lo/ [hoˈba.lo]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁuˈba.lu/ [ʁuˈβa.lu]
* Hyphenation: ro‧ba‧lo

### Noun

robalo m (plural robalos)
* European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
* snook (any fish of the family Centropomidae, especially Centropomus undecimalis)

### References

* ↑ “robalo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /roˈbalo/ [roˈβ̞a.lo]
* Rhymes: -alo
* Syllabification: ro‧ba‧lo

### Etymology 1

Metathesis of lobarro, diminutive of lobo.

#### Alternative forms

* róbalo

#### Noun

robalo m (plural robalos)
* European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
    Synonyms: lubina, sabalo
* snook (fish of genus Centropomus)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

robalo
* second-person singular voseo imperative of robar combined with lo

### Further reading

* “robalo”, in Diccionario 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