loc

loc

See also: LoC, LOC, loc., lóc, lŏć, lọc, lộc, Lộc, and lốc

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of dreadlock.

Alternative forms

• 'loc

Noun

loc (plural locs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.
   • 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette‎:

     Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.

   • 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

     Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.

Derived terms

• loc'd

Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

Noun

loc (plural locs)

1. (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.

Adjective

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

1. (slang) Clipping of loco (“crazy”).

Derived terms

• loced out

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2023), “loc adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• -col-, CLO, COL, Clo, Col., OCL, OLC, col, col-, col.

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lātjā, from the same root as lot (“teardrop”).[1]

Noun

loc m (indefinite plural loce, definite singular locja, definite plural locet)

1. dear, darling

Related terms

• lot
• loke
• loçkë

References

1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “loc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 230

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• locu

Etymology

From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

Noun

loc n (plural locuri)

1. place, location
2. land, soil, earth
3. country, region

Synonyms

• (land, earth, soil): tsarã, pimintu
• (region, country): nai, stat, duvleti, vãsilii

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish loc (“hindrance”), from Middle English lok.

Noun

loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)

1. (obsolete) hindrance

Verb

loc (present analytic locann, future analytic locfaidh, verbal noun locadh, past participle loctha)

1. Ulster form of loic (“to shirk, flinch”)

Conjugation

First Conjugation (A)

		singular			plural			relative	autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	present	locaim	locann tú; locair†	locann sé, sí	locaimid	locann sibh	locann siad; locaid†	a locann; a locas	loctar
	past	loc mé; locas	loc tú; locais	loc sé, sí	locamar; loc muid	loc sibh; locabhair	loc siad; locadar	a loc / ar loc*	locadh
	past habitual	locainn	loctá	locadh sé, sí	locaimis; locadh muid	locadh sibh	locaidís; locadh siad	a locadh / a locadh*	loctaí
	future	locfaidh mé; locfad	locfaidh tú; locfair†	locfaidh sé, sí	locfaimid; locfaidh muid	locfaidh sibh	locfaidh siad; locfaid†	a locfaidh; a locfas	locfar
conditional		locfainn	locfá	locfadh sé, sí	locfaimis; locfadh muid	locfadh sibh	locfaidís; locfadh siad	a locfadh / a locfadh*	locfaí
subjunctive	present	go loca mé; go locad†	go loca tú; go locair†	go loca sé, sí	go locaimid; go loca muid	go loca sibh	go loca siad; go locaid†	—	go loctar
	past	dá locainn	dá loctá	dá locadh sé, sí	dá locaimis; dá locadh muid	dá locadh sibh	dá locaidís; dá locadh siad	—	dá loctaí
imperative		locaim	loc	locadh sé, sí	locaimis	locaigí; locaidh†	locaidís	—	loctar
verbal noun		locadh
past participle		loctha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form

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Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *luką.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lok/

Noun

loc n

1. lock
2. that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
3. an enclosed space, enclosure, fold

Declension

Declension of loc (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	loc	locu
accusative	loc	locu
genitive	loces	loca
dative	loce	locum

Descendants

• Middle English: loc, lok, lokk, lock
  • English: lock
    • Tok Pisin: lok
    • → Hawaiian: laka
  • Scots: lock
• → Anglo-Norman: loc
  • ⇒ Anglo-Norman: loquet
    • Middle French: loquet
      • French: loquet
        • → English: locket
        • → Italian: lucchetto
        • → Lombard: lochet
        • → Portuguese: aloquete, loquete
    • → Middle English: locket
      • English: locket

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loːk/

Interjection

lōc

1. Alternative form of lōca

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English loc, from Proto-Germanic *luką.

Noun

loc m (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural loc)

1. lock
   • (Can we date this quote?), La Vie de St Thomas

     Mes a cel ore esteit a un grant loc fermee

     But at this hour, it was closed with a big lock

Derived terms

• loquet

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (loc)
• loc on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *llog (whence Welsh llog), from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l͈oɡ]

Noun

loc m

1. place (usually inhabited, or suited thereto)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23^d23

     Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.

     Though he may go into a higher place, he is not the higher; this is not the case for us, for we are the higher through going into the high places.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	loc	locL	luicL
Vocative	luic	locL	lucuH
Accusative	locN	locL	lucuH
Genitive	luicL	loc	locN
Dative	lucL	locaib	locaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• locdatu

Descendants

• Irish: log

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
loc also lloc after a proclitic	loc pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “loc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• loic
• luec

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

Noun

loc m (oblique plural locs, nominative singular locs, nominative plural loc)

1. place

Descendants

• Occitan: lòc, luec, luòc

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “locus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 392

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lok/
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

loc n (plural locuri)

1. place, location

Declension

Declension of loc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) loc	locul	(niște) locuri	locurile
genitive/dative	(unui) loc	locului	(unor) locuri	locurilor
vocative	locule		locurilor

Derived terms

• deloc
• înlocui
• lăsa loc de bună ziua
• lua loc

Related terms

• local
• localitate
• locație

See also

• locui

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lock.

Noun

loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)

1. lock (on a canal)

Noun

loc

1. Soft mutation of lloc (“enclosure, pen”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
lloc	loc	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.