different between sportscar vs diablo

English

Noun

sportscar (plural sportscars)

1. Alternative spelling of sports car

English

Etymology 1

From Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of devil, diable, and diabolus.

Noun

diablo (plural diablos)

1. (Southwestern US) the devil

Etymology 2

From French diable (“devil”), from Old French.

Adjective

diablo (not comparable)

1. diable, flavoured with hot spices

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French diable, from Latin diabolus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?ablo/
• Hyphenation: di?a?blo
• Rhymes: -ablo

Noun

diablo (accusative singular diablon, plural diabloj, accusative plural diablojn)

1. devil

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• diabolo (very early Old Spanish, 10th century)

Etymology

From earlier diabolo, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diábolos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dja.blo]

Noun

diablo m (plural diablos)

1. devil
   • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r. b.

     O xp?s ayuno. xl. dias & .xl. noches alli ?u?o en el mõt o qui?o tentar el diablo a xp?s.

     Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There atop the mountain the Devil tried to tempt Christ.

   • Idem, f. 80r. b.

     sobrela buelta da q?l tenple el diablo q?so t?ptar a ih?u x?

     on the roof of that temple the Devil tied to tempt Jesus Christ

Descendants

• Ladino: diavlo
• Spanish: diablo, diaulo
  • ? English: diablo
  • ? Tagalog: diyablo

Spanish

Alternative forms

• diaulo (Chile, colloquial, rare)

Etymology

From Old Spanish diablo, diabolo (compare Ladino diavlo), a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diábolos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?djablo/, [?d?ja.??lo]

Noun

diablo m (plural diablos, feminine diabla, feminine plural diablas)

1. devil

Derived terms

Related terms

• diabólico

Descendants

• ? English: diablo
• ? Tagalog: diyablo

References