# loos
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: lo͞oz, IPA: /luːz/
* Rhymes: -uːz
* Homophone: lose

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

loos
* plural of loo

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

loos (uncountable)
* (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.

##### Alternative forms

* lose, los

### References

* “† lose, n.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* “loos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

## Cornish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA: [loːz]
* (Revived Late Cornish) IPA: [luːz]

### Adjective

loos
* grey
    loos:
    Synonym: glas
* mouldy

#### Derived terms

* gwern loos (“grey alder”)
* helyk loos (“grey willow”)

### See also

Colors in Cornish · liwyow (layout · text) :
| gwynn | loos, glas | du |
| rudh; kogh | rudhvelyn, melynrudh; gell, gorm | melyn; losvelyn |
| | gwyrdh, gwer, glas | |
| glaswyrdh, glaswer; gwerlas | glaswyn, blou | glas |
| glasrudh, purpur; indigo | majenta; purpur, glasrudh | gwynnrudh, kigliw |

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /loːs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: loos
* Rhymes: -oːs

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)
* blank, empty
* idle
* amiss, wrong, problematic
* sly, cunning
* (obsolete) clever, insightful

##### Derived terms

* loosheid

##### See also

* -loos

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

loos
* inflection of lozen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* Oslo

## Middle English
### Noun

loos
* 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, […]

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /loːs/
* Hyphenation: loos
* Rhymes: -oːs

### Adjective

loos (masculine lozen, feminine, plural or definite loze, comparative lozer, superlative loost)
* empty
* loose
* free, liberated

#### Antonyms

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

### References

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

## Tetum
### Adjective

loos
* straight
* correct
* right (-side)