sebo

== Esperanto == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease, suet”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsebo/ Rhymes: -ebo Syllabification: se‧bo === Noun === sebo (uncountable, accusative sebon) tallow, suet == Galician == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese sevo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sēbum (“tallow; suet”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈseβo̝/ === Noun === sebo m (plural sebos) tallow grease, fat 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 22: dez libras de sevo para ensevar a dita pinaça ten pounds of fat for caulking the aforementioned pinnace === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “sevo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega “sevo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016. Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sebo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sebo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sebo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Italian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin sēbum. Compare the inherited doublet sego (older sevo). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.bo/ Rhymes: -ɛbo Hyphenation: sè‧bo === Noun === sebo m (plural sebi) sebum ==== Related terms ==== sebaceo == Latin == === Noun === sēbō dative/ablative singular of sēbum === References === “sebo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ebu Hyphenation: se‧bo === Etymology 1 === From Old Galician-Portuguese sevo, from Latin sēbum (“tallow; suet”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”). ==== Noun ==== sebo m (plural sebos) sebum (oily substance produced by glands of the skin) tallow (hard animal fat) (loosely) grease; gunk; grime (sticky substance on the surface of things) Synonym: graxa ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Unknown origin, Brazil mid 20th c. Possibly a derivation of the sense of tallow or grime, referring to the use of tallow candles in such stores or to the grime that covers old books, thus having a similar semantic development as sebenta (“textbook”). ==== Noun ==== sebo m (plural sebos) (Brazil) a store where used media (especially books, but also CDs, vinyl records, magazines and such) are sold Synonym: (for used books) alfarrabista Coordinate term: (used goods in general) brechó === Further reading === “sebo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “sebo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “sebo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN “sebo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin sēbum, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsebo/ [ˈse.β̞o] Rhymes: -ebo Syllabification: se‧bo === Noun === sebo m (plural sebos) sebum, suet tallow (colloquial) flab; fat ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Mecayapan Nahuatl: xe̱poj → Tagalog: sebo === Further reading === “sebo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Tagalog == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish sebo, from Latin sēbum. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈsebo/ [ˈsɛː.bo] Rhymes: -ebo Syllabification: se‧bo === Noun === sebo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜊᜓ) tallow; fat; suet Synonym: taba shoe polish ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “sebo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018 === Anagrams === beso