loc
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
loc (plural locs)
- (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.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)
- Alternative letter-case form of LOC.
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
loc (plural locs)
- (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.
Etymology 4Edit
AdjectiveEdit
loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- Jonathon Green (2023), “loc adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Albanian *lātjā, from the same root as lot (“teardrop”).[1]
NounEdit
loc m (indefinite plural loce, definite singular locja, definite plural locet)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “loc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 230
AromanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.
NounEdit
loc n (plural locuri)
SynonymsEdit
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Irish loc (“hindrance”), from Middle English lok.
NounEdit
loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)
VerbEdit
loc (present analytic locann, future analytic locfaidh, verbal noun locadh, past participle loctha)
ConjugationEdit
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
Old EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Germanic *luką.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
loc n
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
lōc
- Alternative form of lōca
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old English loc, from Proto-Germanic *luką.
NounEdit
loc m (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural loc)
- 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
- (Can we date this quote?), La Vie de St Thomas
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (loc)
- loc on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Old IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *llog (whence Welsh llog), from Latin locus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
loc m
- 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.
- 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
InflectionEdit
Masculine o-stem | |||
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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:
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Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Irish: log
MutationEdit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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 readingEdit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “loc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
loc m (oblique plural locs, nominative singular locs, nominative plural loc)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “locus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 392
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
loc n (plural locuri)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)
- lock (on a canal)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
loc
- Soft mutation of lloc (“enclosure, pen”).
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |