laus

From Middle High German lūs, from Old High German lūs, from Proto-West Germanic *lūs. Cognate with German Laus, Dutch luis, English louse, Icelandic lús.

laus f (plural lòize)

1. (Sette Comuni) louse

• dorlòizanzich

• “laus” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Borrowed from Spanish clavos (“nails”), plural of clavo (“nail”). C.f. Francisco León Zoque lavusy.

laus

1. nail

• Harrison, Roy, Harrison, Margaret, García H., Cástulo (1981) Diccionario zoque de Copainalá (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 23)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 71

laus

1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃

From Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

laus

1. loose

• laushólk
• lausstrèmming
• lausstremmunge
• lösning

• lausa

From Old Norse lauss.

• IPA^(key): /løyːs/

  Rhymes: -øyːs

laus (comparative lausari, superlative lausastur)

1. loose
2. free to go
3. available
4. vacant

• -laus

Unclear. Accepting a shift of Proto-Italic *ow to Latin au in pretonic positions,[n 1] the term reflects a Proto-Indo-European *le/ow-V́-d^(h)-,[1] which is usually traced back to a tentative root *lew- (“to sing, praise”) together with Proto-Germanic *leuþą (“song, poem”).[1][2] Connection with Old Irish loíd (“poem, lay”) is usually rejected.[3]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lau̯s/, [ɫ̪äu̯s̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lau̯s/, [läu̯s]

laus f (genitive laudis); third declension

1. praise, glory, repute

   Synonym: admīrātiō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.517:

     plūs erat in gladiō quam curvō laudis arātrō

     [Back then] there was more glory in the sword than in the curved plow.
     (Literally, there was more of glory [to be gotten] in [use of] the sword than in the curved plow; that is to say, soldiers were more glorified than farmers.)

2. fame
3. approbation, commendation
4. merit, worth

Third-declension noun.

• laudō
• lautia
• laudes

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “laus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 209

• “laus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• laus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• laus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to praise, extol, commend a person: laude afficere aliquem
    
  • to praise, extol, commend a person: (maximis, summis) laudibus efferre aliquem or aliquid
    
  • to praise, extol, commend a person: eximia laude ornare aliquem
    
  • to overwhelm with eulogy: omni laude cumulare aliquem
    
  • to extol, laud to the skies: laudibus aliquem (aliquid) in caelum ferre, efferre, tollere
    
  • to consider a thing creditable to a man: aliquid laudi alicui ducere, dare
    
  • to confer distinction on a person; to redound to his credit: gloriae, laudi esse
    
  • to be very famous, illustrious: gloria, laude florere
    
  • to be guided by ambition: laudis studio trahi
    
  • to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare
    
  • to be distinguished as a poet: poetica laude florere
    
  • to be a distinguished orator: eloquentiae laude florere
    
  • the word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense: aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sit
    
  • (ambiguous) to praise, extol, commend a person: laudem tribuere, impertire alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to spread a person's praises: alicuius laudes praedicare
    
  • (ambiguous) to win golden opinions from every one: omnium undique laudem colligere
    
  • (ambiguous) to win golden opinions from every one: maximam ab omnibus laudem adipisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to confer distinction on a person; to redound to his credit: laudem afferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to be guided by ambition: laudem, gloriam quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: alicuius famam, laudem imminuere
    
  • (ambiguous) to render obscure, eclipse a person: obscurare alicuius gloriam, laudem, famam (not obscurare aliquem)
    
  • (ambiguous) to sing the praises of some one (not canere aliquem: alicuius laudes versibus persequi
    
  • (ambiguous) to sing the praises of some one (not canere aliquem: alicuius laudes (virtutes) canere
    
  • (ambiguous) to thank, glorify the immortal gods: grates, laudes agere dis immortalibus
    
• “laus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “laus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• lous, loos

From Old Norse lauss, of Germanic origin.

laus

1. loose

• English: loose
• Scots: lous, lows, loose

From Old Norse lauss.

• IPA^(key): /læʉːs/

laus (neuter laust, definite singular and plural lause, comparative lausare, indefinite superlative lausast, definite superlative lausaste)

1. loose
2. flimsy
3. free (not fastened)
4. (archaic, derogatory) outside a legitime marriage (about a child or a woman having such a child)

• lausdans
• lauseld
• lausunge

• løs (Bokmål)

• “laus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

laus

1. inflection of lauss:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

From English louse.

laus

1. any external parasitic insect; flea; louse.

From Proto-Hmong *lu̯eiᴮ (“old”),[1] perhaps borrowed from Middle Chinese 老 (lɑu^X, “old”).[2]

• IPA^(key): /lau̯˩/

laus

1. old

• qub

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.