los

See also: Appendix:Variations of "los"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Loniu with s as a placeholder.

Symbol

los

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Loniu.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Loniu terms

English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English lusk, from Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz. Cognate with Scots los, Saterland Frisian Luks, Low German Luks, Dutch los, German Luchs, Luxembourgish Luuss.

Alternative forms

• losse

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɒs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɑs/

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• Rhymes: -ɒs
• Homophone: loss
• Hyphenation: los

Noun

los (plural loses)

1. (obsolete) A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.

   Synonym: lynx

   The los had been brought from a northern part of the United States.

   • 1592, Thomas Thomasius, Thomae Thomasii Dictionarium tertio ... emendatum ... et longe auctius ... redditum.:

     A beaſt like unto a wolfe having many ſpottes, and being exceeding quicke of ſight: a wolfe like an hart, a Los or Lynx.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English los, from Old English los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą, from Proto-Indo-European *lews-.

Noun

los (plural loses)

1. Obsolete form of loss.
   • 1673, [Joseph Hill], The Interest Of theſe United Provinces. Being a Defence of the Zeelanders Choice […], Middelburg: Printed by Thomas Berry, page [75]:

     If we come under France, we have not onely Spaine our enimie by Sea and Land (as we have ſhewne) but the los of our Spaniſh Trade, and the hazarding of our whole Levant Traffick: And if we rightly calculate, that amounts to no ſmall part of our Commerce.

Etymology 3

Noun

los (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”).

Anagrams

• LOS, LSO, sol, SOL, SLO, OSL, OLS

Achang

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ləʔ (“to come”).

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /lɔ˧˩/
• (Lianghe) [lɑʔ⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [la³¹]
• (Xiandao) [lɔ⁵⁵]

Verb

los

1. to come

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎, Payap University, page 74

Afrikaans

Etymology

Inherited from Dutch lossen. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: los

Verb

los (present los, present participle losende, past participle gelos)

1. to leave, abandon

Adjective

los (attributive lose, comparative loser, superlative losste)

1. loose

Aragonese

Etymology

Derived from Latin illos (“those ones”).

Pronoun

los

1. them (masculine direct object)

Synonyms

• es

Asturian

Alternative forms

• llos (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illōs, from ille.

Article

los m pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, feminine plural les)

1. (definite) the

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Central) IPA^(key): /lus/
• (Valencia) IPA^(key): /los/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin illōs; cf. els.

Pronoun

los (enclitic, contracted 'ls, proclitic els)

1. them (masculine, direct or indirect object)

   perdoneu-los ― forgive them

   doneu-los una moneda ― give them a coin

2. them (feminine, indirect object only)

   digueu-los la veritat ― tell them the truth

Usage notes

• -los is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩.

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

			strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
				proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
singular	1st person	standard	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
		majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
		formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
	3rd person	m	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
		f	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
		n		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
plural
	1st person		nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
		f	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive			si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial	ablative/genitive			en, n’	-ne, ’n
	locative			hi	-hi

¹ Behaves grammatically as plural.   ² Behaves grammatically as third person.
³ Only as object of a preposition.   ⁴ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin illōs, from ille.

Article

los m pl

1. masculine plural of lo