lues

lues

See also: Lues and lũes

English

Etymology 1

From Latin lues (“plague”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːiːz/

Noun

lues (uncountable)

1. (dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues, or our pseudo-syphilis?

   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1031:

     There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.

Derived terms

• luetic

Etymology 2

See lue.

Verb

lues

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lue

Anagrams

• LEUs, Luse, slue

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin luēs (“plague”), from Latin luere (“to loose, release, atone for”). Compare luxace (“luxation”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈluɛs]
• Hyphenation: lu‧es

Noun

lues f or m inan

1. (indeclinable, medicine) syphilis [from 20th c.]
   • 1929, Karel Čapek, “Zmizení herce Bendy”, in Povídky z jedné kapsy‎:

     „A co,“ vzpomněl si úředník, „dluhy neměl?“
     „Ne,“ řekl honem doktor, „on sice Jan Benda měl dluhů jako kvítí, ale nebral je nikdy tragicky.“
     „Nebo… řekněme nějaký osobní skandál… nešťastnou lásku, nebo lues, nebo vůbec nějakou větší starost?“
     „Pokud vím, nic,“ mínil doktor Goldberg váhavě[…]

     "And what about," remembered the official "debts, did he have any?"
     "No," answered the doctor quickly, "Jan Benda had lots of debts, but he never took them tragically."
     "Or… let's say some personal scandal… unhappy love, or syphilis, or some kind of a big problem?"
     "Nothing, as far as I know," said doctor Goldberg hesitantly […]

Synonyms

• syfilis

Derived terms

• luetický
• luetik

References

1. "lues" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, Leda, 2015, →ISBN, page 388.

Further reading

• lues in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lues in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• Elsu
• selu

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Danish

Noun

lues c

1. indefinite genitive singular of lue

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Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin lues.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlues/, [ˈlue̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ues
• Syllabification^(key): lu‧es

Noun

lues

1. syphilis

   Synonyms: kuppa, kuppatauti, syfilis, (historical) huovintauti

Declension

Inflection of lues (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		lues	luekset
genitive		lueksen	luesten lueksien
partitive		luesta	lueksia
illative		luekseen	lueksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		lues	luekset
accusative	nom.	lues	luekset
	gen.	lueksen
genitive		lueksen	luesten lueksien
partitive		luesta	lueksia
inessive		lueksessa	lueksissa
elative		lueksesta	lueksista
illative		luekseen	lueksiin
adessive		lueksella	lueksilla
ablative		luekselta	lueksilta
allative		luekselle	lueksille
essive		lueksena	lueksina
translative		luekseksi	lueksiksi
instructive		—	lueksin
abessive		lueksetta	lueksitta
comitative		—	lueksineen

Possessive forms of lues (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	luekseni	lueksemme
2nd person	lueksesi	lueksenne
3rd person	lueksensa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly/

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Participle

lues f pl

1. feminine plural of the past participle of lire

Anagrams

• élus
• seul

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lues (“syphilis”), from Latin luēs (“plague”), from Latin luere (“to loose, release, atone for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu.es/
• Hyphenation: lu‧és

Noun

lués (first-person possessive luesku, second-person possessive luesmu, third-person possessive luesnya)

1. syphilis

   Synonyms: raja singa, sifilis

Further reading

• “lues” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from luō (“wash”) or from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) (cognate with λῦμα (lûma, “dirt”) and Old Irish loth (“mud”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.eːs/, [ˈɫ̪ueːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.es/, [ˈluːes]

Noun

luēs f sg (genitive luis); third declension

1. plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. (figuratively) plague, misfortune
3. (New Latin) a disease, chiefly syphilis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	luēs
Genitive	luis
Dative	luī
Accusative	luem
Ablative	lue
Vocative	luēs

Verb

luēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of luō

References

• “lues1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lues”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lues in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “luēs” on page 1154/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German los, from Old High German *los, variant of lōs (“loose; free; lacking; sly, deceitful”). Compare for the short vowel Ripuarian Central Franconian loss, Dutch los. The uninflected stem of this adjective develops regularly into Luxembourgish lass, while the inflected stem yields lues. See the English cognate loose for more.

Semantically the above adjective was likely merged with Old High German līso (“weak; slow; quiet”), for which compare German leise (“quiet”). Such semantic interaction of the two words is corroborated by Ripuarian loss and lies, both of which have a dated sense “weakly salted, lacking salt”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luə̯s/

Adjective

lues (masculine luesen, neuter luest, comparative méi lues, superlative am luesten)

1. quiet
2. slow

Declension

declension of lues

number and gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		hien ass lues	si ass lues	et ass lues	si si(nn) lues
nominative / accusative	attributive and/or after determiner	luesen	lues	luest	lues
	independent without determiner			lueses	lueser
dative	after any declined word	luesen	lueser	luesen	luesen
	as first declined word	luesem		luesem

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Romanian

Etymology

From German Lues.

Noun

lues n (uncountable)

1. syphilis

Declension

declension of lues (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lues	luesul
genitive/dative	(unui) lues	luesului
vocative	luesule

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin lues.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǔes/
• Hyphenation: lu‧es

Noun

lùes m (Cyrillic spelling лу̀ес)

1. lues

Declension

Declension of lues

	singular	plural
nominative	lues	luesi
genitive	luesa	luesa
dative	luesu	luesima
accusative	lues	luese
vocative	luese	luesi
locative	luesu	luesima
instrumental	luesom	luesima

References

• “lues” in Hrvatski jezični portal