loc
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
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 terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)
- Alternative letter-case form of LOC.
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
loc (plural locs)
- (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōk, IPA(key): /ləʊk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /loʊk/
- Rhymes: -əʊk
Adjective edit
loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024), “loc adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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)
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ 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)
Synonyms edit
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)
Verb edit
loc (present analytic locann, future analytic locfaidh, verbal noun locadh, past participle loctha)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Further reading edit
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 82
Old English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-West Germanic *lok (“shutter, lock”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
loc n
- 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...'
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilus, Bishop"
- that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
- an enclosed space, enclosure, fold
Declension edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
lōc
- Alternative form of lōca
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old English loc
Noun edit
loc oblique singular, 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 terms edit
References edit
- 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 Irish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *llog (whence Welsh llog), from Latin locus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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
Inflection edit
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 terms edit
Descendants edit
- Irish: log
Mutation edit
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 reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “loc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
loc m (oblique plural locs, nominative singular locs, nominative plural loc)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “locus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 392
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
loc n (plural locuri)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
See also edit
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)
- lock (on a canal)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
loc
- Soft mutation of lloc (“enclosure, pen”).
Mutation edit
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. |