lues

Etymology 1

From Latin lues (“plague”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːiːz/

Etymology 2

See lue.

Anagrams

• LEUs, Luse, slue

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 […]

References

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Elsu
• selu

Noun

lues c

1. genitive singular indefinite of lue

Verb

lues

1. feminine plural of the past participle of lire

Anagrams

• élus
• seul

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

luēs f (genitive luis); third declension

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

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)

Etymology

Formally from a variant of Old High German [Term?] lōs (“loose; free; lacking”) with a shortened vowel, i.e. *los (also attested through Ripuarian Central Franconian loss). The uninflected stem of this adjective develops regular into Luxemburgish lass, while the inflected stem yields lues. Compare 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”). The merger, as such, is confirmed by Central Franconian 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

Etymology

From Latin lues.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lùes m (Cyrillic spelling лу̀ес)

1. lues

References

• “lues” in Hrvatski jezični portal