# loc
## English
### Etymology 1

Clipping of dreadlock.

#### Alternative forms

* 'loc

#### Noun

loc (plural locs)
* (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.
** 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette‎:Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.
** 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.

##### Derived terms

* loc'd

#### Verb

loc (third-person singular simple present locs, present participle locing, simple past and past participle loced)
* (informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.
** 1996, Hype Hair, page 42:Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)
* Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)
* (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōk, IPA: /ləʊk/
* (General American) IPA: /loʊk/
* Rhymes: -əʊk

#### Adjective

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)
* (US, slang) Clipping of loco (“crazy”).

##### Derived terms

* loced out

### Further reading

* “loc adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* -col-, CLO, COL, Clo, Col., OCL, OLC, col, col-, col.

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lātjā, from the same root as lot (“teardrop”).

### Noun

loc m (plural loce, definite locja, definite plural locet)
* dear, darling

#### Related terms

* lot
* loke
* loçkë

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “loc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 230

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* locu

### Etymology

From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

### Noun

loc n (plural locuri)
* place, location
* land, soil, earth
* country, region

#### Synonyms

* (land, earth, soil): tsarã, pimintu
* (region, country): nai, stat, duvleti, vãsilii

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish loc (“hindrance”), from Middle English lok.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l̪ˠɔk/

### Noun

loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)
* (obsolete) hindrance

### Verb

loc (present analytic locann, future analytic locfaidh, verbal noun locadh, past participle loctha)
* Ulster form of loic (“to shirk, flinch”)

#### Conjugation

| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| | | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative | present | locaim | locann tú; locair$^†$ | locann sé, sí | locaimid | locann sibh | locann siad; locaid$^†$ | a locann; a locas | loctar |
| indicative | past | loc mé; locas | loc tú; locais | loc sé, sí | locamar; loc muid | loc sibh; locabhair | loc siad; locadar | a loc / ar loc* | locadh |
| indicative | past habitual | locainn | loctá | locadh sé, sí | locaimis; locadh muid | locadh sibh | locaidís; locadh siad | a locadh / a locadh* | loctaí |
| future | future | locfaidh mé; locfad | locfaidh tú; locfair$^†$ | locfaidh sé, sí | locfaimid; locfaidh muid | locfaidh sibh | locfaidh siad; locfaid$^†$ | a locfaidh; a locfas | locfar |
| conditional | conditional | locfainn | locfá | locfadh sé, sí | locfaimis; locfadh muid | locfadh sibh | locfaidís; locfadh siad | a locfadh / a locfadh* | locfaí |
| subjunctive | present | go loca mé; go locad$^†$ | go loca tú; go locair$^†$ | go loca sé, sí | go locaimid; go loca muid | go loca sibh | go loca siad; go locaid$^†$ | — | go loctar |
| subjunctive | past | dá locainn | dá loctá | dá locadh sé, sí | dá locaimis; dá locadh muid | dá locadh sibh | dá locaidís; dá locadh siad | — | dá loctaí |
| imperative | imperative | locaim | loc | locadh sé, sí | locaimis | locaigí; locaidh$^†$ | locaidís | — | loctar |
| verbal noun | verbal noun | locadh | locadh | locadh | locadh | locadh | locadh | locadh | locadh |
| past participle | past participle | loctha | loctha | loctha | loctha | loctha | loctha | loctha | loctha |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form

### Further reading

* Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 82

## Istro-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin locus.

### Noun

loc n
* place, location

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin locus.

### Noun

loc n (plural locur or loață)
* place, location

### References

* Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
* ↑ https://www.dex.ro/loc

## Old English
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *lok (“shutter, lock”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lok/

#### Noun

loc n
* lock
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilus, Bishop"
    Uton belucan þas circan and loc geinseglian and ġe ealle siðþan waciað þreo niht wuniġende on gebedum and...Let us lock up this church, and seal the lock and do ye all afterward watch three nights, continuing in prayer and...'
* that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
* an enclosed space, enclosure, fold

##### Descendants

* Middle English: lok, loc, lock, loke
** English: lock
** Scots: lock
** Yola: lauckès (plural)
* → Anglo-Norman: loc
** ⇒ Anglo-Norman: loquet
*** Middle French: loquet
**** French: loquet
***** → English: locket
***** → Italian: lucchetto
***** → Lombard: lochet
***** → Portuguese: aloquete, loquete
*** → Middle English: locket
**** English: locket

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /loːk/

#### Interjection

lōc
* Alternative form of lōca

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old English loc

### Noun

loc oblique singular, m (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural loc)
* lock
** (Can we date this quote?), La Vie de St Thomas
    Mes a cel ore esteit a un grant loc fermeeBut at this hour, it was closed with a big lock

#### Derived terms

* loquet

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (loc)
* loc on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Old Irish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *llog (whence Welsh llog), from Latin locus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [l͈oɡ]

### Noun

loc m
* place (usually inhabited, or suited thereto)
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23$^d$23
    Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.Though he may go into a higher place, he is not the higher; this is not the case for us, for we are the higher through going into the high places.

#### Inflection

Masculine o-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | loc | loc$^L$ | luic$^L$ |
| Vocative | luic | loc$^L$ | lucu$^H$ |
| Accusative | loc$^N$ | loc$^L$ | lucu$^H$ |
| Genitive | luic$^L$ | loc | loc$^N$ |
| Dative | luc$^L$ | locaib | locaib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Derived terms

* locdatu

#### Descendants

* Irish: log

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “loc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* loic
* luec

### Etymology

From Latin locus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔk/

### Noun

loc m (oblique plural locs, nominative singular locs, nominative plural loc)
* place

#### Descendants

* Occitan: lòc, luec, luòc

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “locus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 392

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin locus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lok/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ok

### Noun

loc n (plural locuri)
* place, location
* stead

#### Derived terms

* deloc
* înlocui
* la loc
* lăsa loc de bună ziua
* lua loc

#### Related terms

* local
* localitate
* locație

#### See also

* locui

### References

* loc in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔk/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lock.

#### Noun

loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)
* lock (on a canal)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

loc
* Soft mutation of lloc (“enclosure, pen”).