lues

From Latin lues (“plague”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːiːz/

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lues (uncountable)

1. (dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
   • 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):

     And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues, or our pseudo-syphilis?

   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1031:

     There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.

See lue.

lues

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lue

• LEUs, Luse, slue

lues

1. Romanization of ᬮᬸᬯᭂᬲ᭄

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 (indeclinable)

1. (medicine) syphilis [from 20th c.]

   Synonym: syfilis

   • 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 […]

• 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

Ultimately from Latin lues.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlues/, [ˈlue̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ues
• Syllabification^(key): lu‧es

lues

1. syphilis

   Synonyms: kuppa, kuppatauti, syfilis, (historical) huovintauti

• “lues”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /ly/

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lues f pl

1. feminine plural of lu

• élus
• seul

From Dutch lues (“syphilis”), from Latin luēs (“plague”), from Latin luere (“to loose, release, atone for”).

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

lués (first-person possessive luesku, second-person possessive luesmu, third-person possessive luesnya)

1. syphilis

   Synonyms: raja singa, sifilis

• “lues” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Perhaps from luō (“wash”) or from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) (cognate with λῦμα (lûma, “dirt”) and Old Irish loth (“mud”)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.eːs/, [ˈɫ̪ueːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.es/, [ˈluːes]

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 Middle High German los, 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

Borrowed from German Lues.

lues n (uncountable)

1. syphilis

From Latin lues.

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

lùes m (Cyrillic spelling лу̀ес)

1. lues

• “lues” in Hrvatski jezični portal