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loc

See also: LoC, LOC, loc., lóc, lŏć, lọc, lộc, Lộc, and lốc

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Clipping of dreadlock.

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

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.
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

loc (plural locs)

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

Etymology 4Edit

AdjectiveEdit

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

  1. (slang) Clipping of loco (“crazy”).
Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

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)

  1. dear, darling

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 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)

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

SynonymsEdit

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)

  1. (obsolete) hindrance

VerbEdit

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

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

ConjugationEdit

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present locaim locann tú;
locair†		 locann sé, sí locaimid locann sibh locann siad;
locaid†		 a locann; a locas loctar
past loc mé; locas loc tú; locais loc sé, sí locamar; loc muid loc sibh; locabhair loc siad; locadar a loc /
ar loc* 		locadh
past habitual locainn loctá locadh sé, sí locaimis; locadh muid locadh sibh locaidís; locadh siad a locadh /
a locadh* 		loctaí
future locfaidh mé;
locfad 		locfaidh tú;
locfair†		 locfaidh sé, sí locfaimid;
locfaidh muid 		locfaidh sibh locfaidh siad;
locfaid†		 a locfaidh; a locfas locfar
conditional locfainn locfá locfadh sé, sí locfaimis; locfadh muid locfadh sibh locfaidís; locfadh siad a locfadh /
a locfadh* 		locfaí
subjunctive present go loca mé;
go locad†		 go loca tú;
go locair†		 go loca sé, sí go locaimid;
go loca muid 		go loca sibh go loca siad;
go locaid†		 — go loctar
past dá locainn dá loctá dá locadh sé, sí dá locaimis;
dá locadh muid 		dá locadh sibh dá locaidís;
dá locadh siad 		— dá loctaí
imperative locaim loc locadh sé, sí locaimis locaigí;
locaidh†		 locaidís — loctar
verbal noun locadh
past participle loctha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form

Old EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Germanic *luką.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

loc n

  1. lock
  2. that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
  3. an enclosed space, enclosure, fold
DeclensionEdit
Declension of loc (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative loc locu
accusative loc locu
genitive loces loca
dative loce locum
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

InterjectionEdit

lōc

  1. 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)

  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

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Old IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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.

InflectionEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

MutationEdit

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 readingEdit

Old OccitanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin locus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. place

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

loc n (plural locuri)

  1. place, location

DeclensionEdit

Declension of loc
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) loc locul (niște) locuri locurile
genitive/dative (unui) loc locului (unor) locuri locurilor
vocative locule locurilor

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

WelshEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English lock.

NounEdit

loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)

  1. lock (on a canal)

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

loc

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

MutationEdit

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.
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