loos

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

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

loos

1. plural of loo

Etymology 2

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

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise; fame; reputation.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 510:

     That much he feared, leaſt reprochfull blame / VVith foule diſhonour him mote blot therefore; / Beſides the loſſe of ſo much loos and fame, / As through the world thereby ſhould glorifie his name.

Alternative forms

• lose, los

References

• “† lose, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “loos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

Cornish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [loːz]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [luːz]

Adjective

loos

1. grey

See also

Colors in Cornish · liwyow (layout · text)

gwynn	loos, glas	du
rudh; kogh	rudhvelyn, melynrudh; gell, gorm	melyn; losvelyn
	gwyrdh, gwer, glas
glaswyrdh, glaswer; gwerlas	glaswyn, blou	glas
glasrudh, purpur; indigo	majenta; purpur, glasrudh	gwynnrudh, kigliw

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-West Germanic *laus, 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

Declension

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

Anagrams

• Oslo

Middle English

Noun

loos

1. loos: praise, fame, reputation
   • c. 1386–1388 (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Legende of Good Women: The Legend of Hypsiphile and Medea”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio ccxxiiii, recto:

     So that within a daye, two or thre / She knewe by the folke yͭ in his ſhyppes be / That it was Jaſon full of ronomee / And Hercules that had the grete loos […]

     So that within a day, [or] two or three, / She knew by the folk that in his ships be / That it was Jason, full of renomee [renown], / And Hercules that had the great fame, […]

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. empty
2. loose
3. free, liberated

Antonyms

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

References

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

Tetum

Adjective

loos

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