Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Diablo en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”).

Meanings

  1. A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.
  2. A Diablo wind.
    • […]a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […] 1998 02, McCormack's Guides, Incorporated, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma, McCormack's Guides, →ISBN:
    • […]a Diablo wind drove flames through the Berkeley Hills and into the campus of the University of California. Some 3,100 acres and 584 houses burned. Ten years later a Diablo-driven fire scorched a thousand acres and five homes. In 1946[…] 2016 March 31, Stephen J. Pyne, California: A Fire Survey, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 161:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Diablos Number=Plur lexicographic

Diablo en · PROPN

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”).

Meanings

  1. A census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States.