protelo

protelo

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian protele.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /proˈtelo/
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Syllabification: pro‧te‧lo

Noun

protelo (accusative singular protelon, plural proteloj, accusative plural protelojn)

  1. aardwolf

Hyponyms

  • virprotelo (idiomatic) (“a male aardwolf”)
  • protelido (aardwolf cub)
  • protelidino (female aarwolf cub)
  • protelino (aardwolfess)

Latin

Etymology

    From prō- + tēlum + .

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    prōtēlō (present infinitive prōtēlāre, perfect active prōtēlāvī, supine prōtēlātum); first conjugation

    1. to drive forward
    2. to beat off or repulse

    Conjugation

    References

    • protelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • protelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • protelo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Portuguese

    Etymology 1

      Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Proteles.

      Pronunciation

       
      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾoˈtɛ.lu/, /pɾoˈte.lu/
      • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾuˈtɛ.lu/, /pɾuˈte.lu/

      • Rhymes: -ɛlu, -elu
      • Hyphenation: pro‧te‧lo

      Noun

      protelo m (plural protelos)

      1. aardwolf (Proteles cristata, a carnivore of Africa)
        Synonym: lobo-da-terra

      Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Pronunciation

       

      • Rhymes: -ɛlu
      • Hyphenation: pro‧te‧lo

      Verb

      protelo

      1. first-person singular present indicative of protelar

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