lues

From Latin lues (“plague”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːiːz/

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.

• luetic

See lue.

lues

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

• LEUs, Luse, slue

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

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

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 […]

• syfilis

• luetický
• luetik

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

• Elsu
• selu

lues c

1. indefinite genitive singular of lue

• IPA^(key): /ly/

lues

1. feminine plural of the past participle of lire

• élus
• seul

Perhaps from luō (“wash”) or from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- ("louse", cognate with λύω (lúō)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.eːs/, [ˈɫʊ.eːs]

luēs f sg (genitive luis); third declension

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

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

luēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of luō

• 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)

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”.

• IPA^(key): /luə̯s/

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

1. quiet
2. slow

From Latin lues.

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

lùes m (Cyrillic spelling лу̀ес)

1. lues

• “lues” in Hrvatski jezični portal