# loor
## Cornish
### Etymology

From Old Cornish luir, from Proto-Brythonic *lloɨr, from Proto-Celtic *lugrā, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Breton loar and Welsh lloer.

### Noun

loor f (plural loryow)
* moon

#### See also

* lorel (“lunar”)
Solar System in Cornish · System howlek (layout · text) :
| Star | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl | Howl |
| IAU planets and notable dwarf planets | Mergher | Gwener | Dor | Meurth | Ceres | Yow | Sadorn | Ouran | Nevyon | Plouton | Eris |
| Notable moons | — | — | Loor | | — | | | | | | |

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).

### Noun

loor f (Hebrew spelling לואור, plural loores)
* praise (commendation)
    Synonyms: alago, alavansa, elojio
** 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎, Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 8:Eia te envoca con palavras dulsis Con cantes i loores¹) ke tu las mereses Es ia tiempo ke de eia te entereses Ajenos se empatronan de sus posesiones Termine la aniada i sus maldisiones.It lifts you with sweet words, with songs and praises that you deserve, 'tis now time that it interest you; strangers seize its possessions. End the year and its curses.

#### Usage notes

* Commoner in the plural form.

### References

* ↑ “loor”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* louvor

### Etymology

Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Spanish loor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lo.ˈoɾ/

### Noun

loor m (plural loores)
* (religion) praise; worship (devotion to a deity)
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 156 (facsimile):
    Eſte miragre fez ſanta m̃ en Cuñegro p̃ un crerigo q̄ cãtaua mui bẽ as as proſas a ſſa loor. ⁊ prenderono ereges ⁊ tallaronlla lingua.
       Holy Mary worked this miracle in Cluny for a cleric who sang very well his proses in her praise, and heretics seized him and cut off his tongue.

#### Descendants

* Galician: louvor
* Mirandese: lhoubor (via Old Portuguese louvor)
* Portuguese: louvor (via Old Portuguese louvor)

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* loa, lodor

### Etymology

Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese loor.

### Noun

loor m (plural loores)
* praise (commendation)
    Synonym: loamiento

#### Descendants

* Ladino: loor, לואור
* Spanish: loor

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “loor”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 310

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /loˈoɾ/ [loˈoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: lo‧or

### Noun

loor m (plural loores)
* (literary, formal) praise
    Synonyms: alabanza, elogio, enaltecimiento, halago, loa

#### Related terms

* loar

### Further reading

* “loor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* loro, olor, orlo, orló, rolo, roló