loos

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

loos

1. plural of loo

From Middle English loos, lōs (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.

• enPR: lo͞os, IPA^(key): /luːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs
• Homophone: loose

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 510:

     That much he feared, leaſt reprochfull blame / VVith foule diſhonour him mote blot therefore; / Beſides the loſſe of ſo much loos and fame, / As through the world thereby ſhould glorifie his name.

• “loos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

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

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

loos

1. grey

• IPA^(key): /loːs/

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• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -oːs

From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *laus, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

1. blank, empty
2. idle
3. amiss, wrong, problematic
4. sly, cunning
5. (obsolete) clever, insightful

• loosheid

• -loos

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

loos

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

• Oslo

loos

1. loos: praise, fame, reputation
   • c. 1386–1388 (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Legende of Good Women: The Legend of Hypsiphile and Medea”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio ccxxiiii, recto:

     So that within a daye, two or thre / She knewe by the folke yͭ in his ſhyppes be / That it was Jaſon full of ronomee / And Hercules that had the grete loos […]

     So that within a day, [or] two or three, / She knew by the folk that in his ships be / That it was Jason, full of renomee [renown], / And Hercules that had the great fame, […]

From Old Frisian *lās (attested only in compounds as -lās), from Proto-West Germanic *laus.

• IPA^(key): /loːs/
• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -oːs

loos (masculine lozen, feminine, plural or definite loze, comparative lozer, superlative loost)

1. empty
2. loose
3. free, liberated

• (antonym(s) of “empty”): ful
• (antonym(s) of “loose”): ääng

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “loos”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

loos

1. straight
2. correct
3. right (-side)