loos

See also: Loos and -loos

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͞oz, IPA^(key): /luːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz
• Homophone: lose

Noun

loos

1. plural of loo

Etymology 2

From Middle English lōs (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͞os, IPA^(key): /luːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs
• Homophone: loose

Noun

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer

     Hercules that had the grete loos

   • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene vi. xii. 12.

     That much he feared, least reprochfull blame

     With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;

     Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,

     As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “loos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

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Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *luɨd, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlētos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [loːz]
• IPA^(key): [luːz]

Adjective

loos

1. grey

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loːs/

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• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -oːs

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

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

Inflection

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	—

Derived terms

• loosheid

See also

• -loos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

loos

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of lozen
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of lozen

Anagrams

• Oslo

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Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *lās (attested only in compounds as -lās), from Proto-Germanic *lausaz. More at lease, loose.

Adjective

loos

1. empty