Adjective: lóbrego
Hyphenation: ló‧bre‧go
| Singular m. | lóbrego |
| Singular f. | lóbrega |
| Plural m. | lóbregos |
| Plural f. | lóbregas |
Sample Sentences
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Pasó Gloria a la sacristía, que era lóbrega y húmeda, y de allí a un patiecillo estrecho cubierto de yerba. [1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:]
Adjectives inflected like lóbrego
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *slubʰ-ró-
4. Proto-Italic *slouβr(e/o)kos?
5. Latin lūbricus?
6. Spanish lóbrego
7. Possibly from Latin lūbricus (“slippery, slimy”). Perhaps influenced by lūgubris (“gloomy, mournful”). Doublet of lúbrico. Cognate with Portuguese lôbrego and Asturian llóbregu.
8. An alternative theory derives the term directly from lūgubris, with metathesis; in which case the doublet would be lúgubre. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
lôbrego', Asturian Adjectives '
llóbregu'.
Verbs referencing "lóbrego"
Portuguese Adjectives
lôbrego, Catalan Adjectives
llòbrec, Asturian Adjectives
llóbregu.
Translations