loos

See also: Loos and -loos

English

Etymology 1

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)

  1. (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer.
      Hercules that had the grete loos.
    • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene vi. xii. 12.
      That much he feared, least reprochfull blame
      With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;
      Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,
      As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.
References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

loos

  1. plural of loo

Anagrams

Cornish

Etymology

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

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

Adjective

loos

  1. 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)

  1. blank, empty
  2. idle
  3. amiss, wrong, problematic
  4. sly, cunning
  5. (obsolete) clever, insightful
Inflection
Inflection of loos
uninflected loos
inflected loze
comparative lozer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial looslozerhet loost
het looste
indefinite m./f. sing. lozelozerelooste
n. sing. looslozerlooste
plural lozelozerelooste
definite lozelozerelooste
partitive looslozers—
Derived terms
  • loosheid
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loos

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lozen
  2. imperative of lozen

Anagrams

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *lās (attested only in compounds as -lās), from Proto-Germanic *lausaz. More at lease, loose.

Adjective

loos

  1. empty
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