loc

loc (plural locs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.
2. Alternative letter-case form of LOC

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

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

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

1. dear, darling

• lot
• loke
• loçkë

• locu

From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

loc n (plural locuri)

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

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

From Proto-Germanic *luką.

loc n

1. lock

• 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
    • → Middle English: locket
      • English: locket

lōc

1. Alternative form of lōca

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

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

1. lock
   • 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

• loquet

• 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

loc m

1. place (usually inhabited, or suited thereto)

• locdatu

• Irish: log

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “loc”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

• loic
• luec

From Latin locus.

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

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

1. place

• Catalan: lloc
• Occitan: lòc, luec, luòc

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “locus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 50, page 392

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

• IPA^(key): /lok/
• Rhymes: -ok

loc n (plural locuri)

1. place, location

• înlocui
• deloc

• local
• localitate
• locație

• locui

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

Borrowed from English lock.

loc m (plural lociau)

1. lock (on a canal)

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

loc

1. Soft mutation of lloc.