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): lus
Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

loos (uncountable)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Noun

loos

plural of loo

Anagrams

OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

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

grey

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

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	—

Verb

loos

first-person singular present indicative of lozen
imperative of lozen

Anagrams

Oslo

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

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

Adjective

loos

empty

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