loos
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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.
Anagrams edit
Cornish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Brythonic *lluɨd, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlētos.
Pronunciation edit
- (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [loːz]
- (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [luːz]
Adjective edit
loos
See also edit
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
Declension 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 | — |
Derived terms edit
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Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
loos
- inflection of lozen:
Anagrams edit
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
Adjective edit
loos (masculine lozen, feminine, plural or definite loze, comparative lozer, superlative loost)
Antonyms edit
References edit
Tetum edit
Adjective edit
loos
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