protelo

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian protele.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /proˈtelo/
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Hyphenation: 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

Noun

protelo m (plural protelos)

  1. aardwolf (Proteles cristata, a carnivore of Africa)

Etymology 2

Verb

protelo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of protelar