loos
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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loos
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English loos, lōs (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.
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loos (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 510:
- That much he feared, leaſt reprochfull blame / VVith foule diſhonour him mote blot therefore; / Beſides the loſſe of ſo much loos and fame, / As through the world thereby ſhould glorifie his name.
References edit
- “loos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Cornish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Brythonic *lluɨd, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlētos.
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loos
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gwynn | loos, glas | du |
rudh; kogh | rudhvelyn; gell, gorm | melyn |
gwyrdh, glas | ||
glas | ||
glasrudh, purpur | majenta; purpur, glasrudh | gwynnrudh, kigliw |
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *laus, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.
Adjective edit
loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)
Inflection edit
Inflection of loos | ||||
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uninflected | loos | |||
inflected | loze | |||
comparative | lozer | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | loos | lozer | het loost het looste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | loze | lozere | looste |
n. sing. | loos | lozer | looste | |
plural | loze | lozere | looste | |
definite | loze | lozere | looste | |
partitive | loos | lozers | — |
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Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
loos
- inflection of lozen:
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Middle English edit
Noun edit
loos
- loos: praise, fame, reputation
- c. 1386–1388 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Legende of Good Women: The Legend of Hypsiphile and Medea”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio ccxxiiii, recto:
- So that within a daye, two or thre / She knewe by the folke yͭ in his ſhyppes be / That it was Jaſon full of ronomee / And Hercules that had the grete loos […]
Saterland Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian *lās (attested only in compounds as -lās), from Proto-West Germanic *laus.
Pronunciation edit
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loos (masculine lozen, feminine, plural or definite loze, comparative lozer, superlative loost)
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loos