louzán

See also: Louzán and louzañ

Galician

Debated. From Old Galician-Portuguese loução, from *lautiano, derived either from Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (flauts, “boastful, conceited”), from Proto-Germanic *flautaz, or from Latin lautus (“washed; refined”) (compare louza (“dishware”). Older meanings favour the Germanic origin, but the loss of the initial f- would be irregular.

louzán (feminine louzá, masculine plural louzáns, feminine plural louzás)

(dated) proud, haughty, conceited
- 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 97:
  Et muyto he agora loução por que esta uez vençeu os mouros
  He is now very proud because this time he defeated the Moors
having a fresh and healthy appearance, lush
Synonym: vizoso
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 230:
  este Pares foy o mays fremoso home et o mays loução et mays ensynado que ouuo ẽno mũdo
  this Paris was the handsomest, the lushest, and the most learned man that ever existed in the world

“loução” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLlink titleI - ILGA 2006-2012.
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “louç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “louzan”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “louzán”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega