lues
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lues (“plague”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lues (uncountable)
- (dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
- And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues, or our pseudo-syphilis?
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1031:
- There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See lue.
Verb
lues
- third-person singular simple present indicative of lue
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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin luēs (“plague”), from Latin luere (“to loose, release, atone for”). Compare luxace (“luxation”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
lues f or m inan
- (indeclinable, medicine) syphilis [from 20th c.]
- 1929, Karel Čapek, “Zmizení herce Bendy”, in Povídky z jedné kapsy[1]:
- „A co,“ vzpomněl si úředník, „dluhy neměl?“
„Ne,“ řekl honem doktor, „on sice Jan Benda měl dluhů jako kvítí, ale nebral je nikdy tragicky.“
„Nebo… řekněme nějaký osobní skandál… nešťastnou lásku, nebo lues, nebo vůbec nějakou větší starost?“
„Pokud vím, nic,“ mínil doktor Goldberg váhavě[…]- "And what about," remembered the official "debts, did he have any?"
"No," answered the doctor quickly, "Jan Benda had lots of debts, but he never took them tragically."
"Or… let's say some personal scandal… unhappy love, or syphilis, or some kind of a big problem?"
"Nothing, as far as I know," said doctor Goldberg hesitantly […]
- "And what about," remembered the official "debts, did he have any?"
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Danish
Noun
lues c
French
Pronunciation
Verb
lues
- feminine plural of the past participle of lire
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch lues (“syphilis”), from Latin luēs (“plague”), from Latin luere (“to loose, release, atone for”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lués (first-person possessive luesku, second-person possessive luesmu, third-person possessive luesnya)
Further reading
- “lues” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from luō (“wash”) or from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- ("louse", cognate with λύω (lúō)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.eːs/, [ˈɫ̪ueːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.es/, [ˈluːes]
Noun
luēs f sg (genitive luis); third declension
- plague, pestilence, epidemic
- (figuratively) plague, misfortune
- (New Latin) a disease, chiefly syphilis
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | luēs |
Genitive | luis |
Dative | luī |
Accusative | luem |
Ablative | lue |
Vocative | luēs |
Verb
(deprecated template usage) luēs
References
- “lues1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lues”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lues in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “luēs” on page 1154/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German *los, variant of lōs (“loose; free; lacking; sly, deceitful”). Compare for the short vowel Ripuarian Central Franconian loss, Dutch los. The uninflected stem of this adjective develops regularly into Luxembourgish lass, while the inflected stem yields lues. See the English cognate loose for more.
Semantically the above adjective was likely merged with Old High German līso (“weak; slow; quiet”), for which compare German leise (“quiet”). Such semantic interaction of the two words is corroborated by Ripuarian loss and lies, both of which have a dated sense “weakly salted, lacking salt”.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lues (masculine luesen, neuter luest, comparative méi lues, superlative am luesten)
Declension
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass lues | si ass lues | et ass lues | si si(nn) lues | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | luesen | lues | luest | lues |
independent without determiner | lueses | lueser | |||
dative | after any declined word | luesen | lueser | luesen | luesen |
as first declined word | luesem | luesem |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lues.
Pronunciation
Noun
lùes m (Cyrillic spelling лу̀ес)
Declension
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- “lues” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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