different between lotos vs loos

English

Noun

lotos (plural lotoses)

1. (botany) Dated form of lotus.
   • 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

     A flock of pigeons circled about the tower of the Memorial Church; sometimes alighting on the purple tiled roof, sometimes wheeling downward to the lotos fountain in front of the marble arch.

Anagrams

• loots, sloot, sotol, stool, tools, tosol

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lotos]

Noun

lotos m

1. lotus

Further reading

• lotos in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• lotos in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Latin

Alternative forms

• l?tus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lo?.tos/, [???o?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lo.tos/, [?l??t??s]

Noun

l?tos f or m (genitive l?t?); second declension

1. The Egyptian lotus flower, Nymphaea caerulea
2. The date-plum, Diospyros lotus
3. The mythical lotus tree, possibly Ziziphus lotus

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

For the sense mythical lotus tree, Gaius Plinius Secundus used the nominative plural l?toe in his Naturalis Historia.

References

• lotos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lotos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.t?s/

Noun

lotos m inan

1. lotus

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lôtos/

Noun

l?tos m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. lotus

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ló?t?s/

Noun

l??tos m inan

1. lotus

Inflection

Further reading

• “lotos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?oz, IPA^(key): /lu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: lose

Noun

loos

1. plural of loo

Etymology 2

From Middle English l?s (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?os, IPA^(key): /lu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: loose

Noun

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.

   • Hercules that had the grete loos

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, vi, xii, 12

     That much he feared, least reprochfull blame

     With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;

     Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,

     As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.

Anagrams

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *llu?d, from Proto-Celtic *?l?tos.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [lo?z]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [lu?z]

Adjective

loos

1. grey

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?s/
• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -o?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *l?s, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

1. blank, empty
2. idle
3. amiss, wrong, problematic
4. sly, cunning
5. (obsolete) clever, insightful

Inflection

Derived terms

• loosheid

See also

• -loos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loos

1. first-person singular present indicative of lozen
2. imperative of lozen

Anagrams

• Oslo

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *l?s (attested only in compounds as -l?s), from Proto-West Germanic *laus. More at lease, loose.

Adjective

loos

1. empty