English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Clipping of dreadlock.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

loc (plural locs)

  1. (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.
    • 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette[1]:
      Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. [] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.
    • 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
      Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.
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Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

loc (plural locs)

  1. (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.

Etymology 4 edit

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

  1. (US, slang) Clipping of loco (crazy).
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Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Albanian *lātjā, from the same root as lot (teardrop).[1]

Noun edit

loc m (plural loce, definite locja, definite plural locet)

  1. dear, darling

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “loc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 230

Aromanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

Noun edit

loc n (plural locuri)

  1. place, location
  2. land, soil, earth
  3. country, region

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Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish loc (hindrance), from Middle English lok.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)

  1. (obsolete) hindrance

Verb edit

loc (present analytic locann, future analytic locfaidh, verbal noun locadh, past participle loctha)

  1. Ulster form of loic (to shirk, flinch)

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

Old English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-West Germanic *lok (shutter, lock).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

loc n

  1. lock
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilus, Bishop"
      Uton belucan þas circan and loc geinseglian and ġe ealle siðþan waciað þreo niht wuniġende on gebedum and...
      Let us lock up this church, and seal the lock and do ye all afterward watch three nights, continuing in prayer and...'
  2. that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
  3. an enclosed space, enclosure, fold
Declension edit
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Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

lōc

  1. Alternative form of lōca

Old French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Old English loc

Noun edit

loc oblique singularm (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural loc)

  1. lock
    • (Can we date this quote?), La Vie de St Thomas
      Mes a cel ore esteit a un grant loc fermee
      But at this hour, it was closed with a big lock

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Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *llog (whence Welsh llog), from Latin locus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

loc m

  1. place (usually inhabited, or suited thereto)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23d23
      Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.
      Though he may go into a higher place, he is not the higher; this is not the case for us, for we are the higher through going into the high places.

Inflection edit

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative loc locL luicL
Vocative luic locL lucuH
Accusative locN locL lucuH
Genitive luicL loc locN
Dative lucL locaib locaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Descendants edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
loc
also lloc after a proclitic
loc
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Old Occitan edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin locus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

loc m (oblique plural locs, nominative singular locs, nominative plural loc)

  1. place

Descendants edit

References edit

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin locus

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /lok/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ok

Noun edit

loc n (plural locuri)

  1. place, location

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

See also edit

Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from English lock.

Noun edit

loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)

  1. lock (on a canal)

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

loc

  1. Soft mutation of lloc (enclosure, pen).

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
lloc loc unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.