# lost
## English
### Alternative forms

* los'
* loss

### Etymology

From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose +‎ -t.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: lŏst, IPA: /lɒst/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (UK, dated) enPR: lôst, IPA: /lɔːst/
* (US) enPR: lôst, IPA: /lɔst/
* (cot–caught merger) enPR: läst, IPA: /lɑst/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: /lɒst/
** Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒst, -ɔːst

### Verb

lost
* simple past and past participle of lose

#### Derived terms

* I lost my backpack
* I lost my bag
* I lost my glasses
* I lost my handbag
* I lost my keys
* I lost my wallet
* I've lost my keys
* long-lost
* look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
* look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
* no love lost

### Adjective

lost (comparative loster or more lost, superlative lostest or most lost)
* Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
    The children were soon lost in the forest.
* In an unknown location; unable to be found.
    Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
* Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
    an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
* Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
    a lost limb; lost honour
* Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
    a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit; no time should be lost
* Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
    a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them.
* Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
    lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour
* Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
    to be lost in thought

#### Derived terms

* all is not lost
* be lost to the four winds
* get lost
* he who hesitates is lost
* I'm lost
* long lost
* lost and found
* lost articles
* lost cause
* Lost Creek
* lost decade
* lost errand
* lost for words
* lost generation
* lost ground
* lost highway
* lost in action
* lost in the sauce
* lost in the shuffle
* lost in thought
* lost in time
* lost in translation
* lost media
* lost motion
* lost neutral
* lost on
* lost property
* lost river
* lost shark
* lost sheep
* lost soul
* lost to the world
* lost wages
* lost wax
* lost-wax casting
* lost-wax process
* lost weekend
* lost with all hands
* lost world
* make up for lost time
* one who hesitates is lost
* Ten Lost Tribes

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lots, slot, tols

## Breton
### Etymology

Cognate with Welsh llost, Cornish lost, Gaulish losto-, from Proto-Celtic *lustā, from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to divide, split”), possibly related to Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”), Proto-Germanic *leustaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɔst]

### Noun

lost m (plural lostoù)
* A tail.
* (informal) a cock, a penis.
    Ha ma lost bras 'zo bet troc'het
       And my big penis was cut off (from a Breton bawdy song)

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Middle Cornish lost, from Proto-Brythonic *llost, from Proto-Celtic *lustā, from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to divide, split”), possibly related to Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”), Proto-Germanic *leustaną. Cognate with Welsh llost, Breton lost, Gaulish losto-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɔst]

### Noun

lost m
* A tail.
* (informal) a cock, a penis.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔst

### Verb

lost
* inflection of lossen:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

### Adjective

lost
* superlative degree of los

### Anagrams

* slot, stol

## German
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /loːst/

#### Verb

lost
* inflection of losen:
** second/third-person singular present
** second-person plural present
** plural imperative

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lost.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔst/

#### Adjective

lost (strong nominative masculine singular loster, not comparable)
* (slang) clueless, confused; lost; vain

##### Further reading

* “lost” in Duden online
* “lost” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Icelandic
### Noun

lost n (genitive singular losts, nominative plural lost)
* shock

#### Derived terms

* raflost

### Further reading

* “lost” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)