See also: los, löss, løss, and lóss

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English los, from Old English los (damage, destruction, loss), from Proto-West Germanic *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą (dissolution, break-up, loss), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose).

Cognate with Icelandic los (dissolution, looseness, break-up), Old English lor, forlor (loss, ruin), Middle High German verlor (loss, ruin). More at lose.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)

  1. (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
    Antonym: gain
    loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.
    In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.
  2. (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
  3. (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
    It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.
  4. (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
    Antonyms: win, victory
    The match ended in their first loss of the season.
  5. (countable) The death of a person or animal.
    We mourn his loss.
    The battle was won, but losses were great.
  6. (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
    Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.
  7. (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
    Antonym: profit
    The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
  8. (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
    The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Verb

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loss

  1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost

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Estonian

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Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Schloss, from Middle High German slōz, from Old High German sloz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlosʲː/, [ˈlosʲː]
  • Hyphenation: loss

Noun

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loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)

  1. castle

Declension

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Declension of loss (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative loss lossid
accusative nom.
gen. lossi
genitive losside
partitive lossi losse
lossisid
illative lossi
lossisse
lossidesse
lossesse
inessive lossis lossides
losses
elative lossist lossidest
lossest
allative lossile lossidele
lossele
adessive lossil lossidel
lossel
ablative lossilt lossidelt
losselt
translative lossiks lossideks
losseks
terminative lossini lossideni
essive lossina lossidena
abessive lossita lossideta
comitative lossiga lossidega

Further reading

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  • loss”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • loss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • loss”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • loss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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loss

  1. imperative of losse

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Low German los (free, loose), from Middle Low German lōs, from Old Saxon lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *laus.

See also Danish los and Norwegian loss, Dutch loos. Doublet of lös.

Adverb

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loss (not comparable)

  1. to a no longer attached or stuck state (no longer stuck to something, generally); loose, off, untied
    Han drog i den, och till slut kom den loss
    He pulled on it, and finally it came loose
    Han sparkade loss grenen
    He kicked the branch off
    Jag är fast i kvicksand och kommer inte loss
    I'm stuck in quicksand and can't get out (get unstuck)
    De knöt loss båten
    They untied the boat (from the pier)

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