loos

See also: Loos and -loos

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

loos

plural of loo

Etymology 2

From Middle English lōs (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.

Pronunciation

enPR: lo͞os, IPA^(key): /luːs/
Rhymes: -uːs
Homophone: loose

Noun

loos (uncountable)

(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 932900760, 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for loos in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

Cornish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

loos

grey

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *lōs, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

blank, empty
idle
amiss, wrong, problematic
sly, cunning
(obsolete) clever, insightful

Inflection

Inflection 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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

loos

first-person singular present indicative of lozen
imperative of lozen

Anagrams

Oslo

Middle English

Noun

loos

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 932884868, 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 (inflected loze, comparative lozer, superlative loost)

empty
loose
free, liberated

Antonyms

(empty): ful
(loose): ääng

References

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

Tetum

Adjective

loos

straight
correct
right (-side)