loos

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See also: Loos, loo's, and -loos

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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loos

  1. plural of loo

Etymology 2

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From Middle English loos, lōs (reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news), from Old French los, from Latin laus (praise, glory, fame, renown). Doublet of laud.

Noun

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loos (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Praise; fame; reputation.
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Cornish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *lluɨd, from Proto-Celtic *ɸleitos.

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loos

  1. grey

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Colors in Cornish · liwyow (layout · text)
     gwynn      loos, glas      du
             rudh; kogh              rudhvelyn; gell, gorm              melyn
                          gwyrdh, glas             
                                       glas
             glasrudh, purpur              majenta; purpur, glasrudh              gwynnrudh, kigliw

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /loːs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: loos
  • Rhymes: -oːs

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *laus, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

Adjective

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loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

  1. blank, empty
  2. idle
  3. amiss, wrong, problematic
  4. sly, cunning
  5. (obsolete) clever, insightful
Declension
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Declension of loos
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
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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loos

  1. inflection of lozen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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Middle English

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Noun

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loos

  1. loos: praise, fame, reputation

Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian *lās (attested only in compounds as -lās), from Proto-West Germanic *laus.

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loos (masculine lozen, feminine, plural or definite loze, comparative lozer, superlative loost)

  1. empty
  2. loose
  3. free, liberated

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  • (antonym(s) of empty): ful
  • (antonym(s) of loose): ääng

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “loos”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Tetum

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Adjective

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loos

  1. straight
  2. correct
  3. right (-side)