loor

See also: Loor

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish luir, from Proto-Brythonic *lloɨr, from Proto-Celtic *lugrā, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Breton loar and Welsh lloer.

Noun

loor f (plural loryow)

1. moon

See also

• lorel (“lunar”)

Solar System in Cornish · System howlek (layout · text)
Star	Howl
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Mergher	Gwener	Dor	Meurth	Ceres	Yow	Sadorn	Ouran	Nevyon	Plouton	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Loor		—

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).

Noun

loor f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling לואור, plural loores)

1. praise (commendation)

   Synonyms: alago, alavansa, elojio

   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎^[1], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 8:

     Eia te envoca con palavras dulsis
     Con cantes i loores¹) ke tu las mereses
     Es ia tiempo ke de eia te entereses
     Ajenos se empatronan de sus posesiones
     Termine la aniada i sus maldisiones.

     It lifts you with sweet words, with songs and praises that you deserve, 'tis now time that it interest you; strangers seize its possessions. End the year and its curses.

Usage notes

• Commoner in the plural form.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• louvor

Etymology

Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Spanish loor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo.ˈoɾ/

Noun

loor m (plural loores)

1. (religion) praise; worship (devotion to a deity)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 156 (facsimile):

     Eſte miragre fez ſanta m̃ en Cuñegro p̃ un crerigo q̄ cãtaua mui bẽ as as proſas a ſſa loor. ⁊ prenderono ereges ⁊ tallaronlla lingua.

     Holy Mary worked this miracle in Cluny for a cleric who sang very well his proses in her praise, and heretics seized him and cut off his tongue.

Descendants

• Galician: louvor
• Mirandese: lhoubor (via Old Portuguese louvor)
• Portuguese: louvor (via Old Portuguese louvor)

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• loa, lodor

Etymology

Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese loor.

Noun

loor m (plural loores)

1. praise (commendation)

   Synonym: loamiento

Descendants

• Ladino: loor, לואור
• Spanish: loor

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “loor”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 310

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loˈoɾ/ [loˈoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: lo‧or

Noun

loor m (plural loores)

1. (literary, formal) praise

   Synonyms: alabanza, elogio, enaltecimiento, halago, loa

Related terms

• loar

Further reading

• “loor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• loro, olor, orlo, orló, rolo, roló