robalo

Borrowed from Spanish robalo.

robalo (plural robalos)

1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

• Barolo

Attested in 1417. Probably from the same origin that Catalan llobarro (which is first attested in 1599), from Latin lupus (“wolf”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /roˈβalo̝/

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)

• Robaleira
• robaliza

• “robalo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁoˈba.lu/

robalo m (plural robalos)

1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
2. snook (any fish of the family Centropomidae, especially the Centropomus undecimalis)

• róbalo

Metathesis of lobarro, diminutive of lobo

robalo m (plural robalos)

1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
2. snook (fish of genus Centropomus)

• (European seabass): lubina, sabalo