different between love vs los

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /l?v/, [??v]
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /l?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-Germanic *lub?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).

The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.

The verb is from Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from the noun lufu (“love”), see above.

Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).

Noun

love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)

1. (uncountable) Strong affection.
   1. A profound and caring affection towards someone.
      • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

        He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.

      • 2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (?ISBN)
   2. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
      • 1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:

        The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is [...] the highest of all the Divine commands[.]

   3. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
   4. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
      • 2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (?ISBN):

        For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?

2. (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion

     Open the temple gates unto my love.

   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

     O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
3. (colloquial, Commonwealth of Nations) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

4. A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
   • 1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:

     But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."

5. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
   • 2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (?ISBN), page 3:

     The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.

6. (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
   • 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":

     —What think you, my lord, of... love?

     —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.

7. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
   • 2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (?ISBN):

     Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.

8. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
9. Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
   • c. 1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):

     At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; [...]

10. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]

      Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.

11. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

Synonyms

• (darling, sweetheart): baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
• (term of address): mate, lover, darling, sweetie, sweetheart; see also Thesaurus:lover
• (sexual desire): aphrodisia, carnality; see also Thesaurus:lust
• (sexual activity): coitus, sex, the beast with two backs; see also Thesaurus:copulation
• (instance of being in love): romance

Antonyms

• (strong affection): hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite
• (absence of love): indifference

Translations

See love/translations § Noun.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.

   • 2013 February 26, Pink and Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason:

     Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.

2. (transitive) To need, thrive on.

3. (transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
   • John 3:16

     For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

   • Matthew: 22:37-38

     You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
5. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.

6. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (have a strong affection for): adore, cherish; see also Thesaurus:love
• (have sexual intercourse with): enjoy, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Antonyms

• hate, despise

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See love/translations § Verb.

See also

• charity

Etymology 2

From Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”), from Proto-Germanic *lub?n? (“to praise, vow”), from *lub? (“praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to like, love, desire”), *lewb?-.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
2. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Etymology 3

Said by some to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love”, that is for no monetary gain, the word “love” implies "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the French term l’œuf (“the egg”), due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted, though compare the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket.

Noun

love (uncountable)

1. (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.

   So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

   • 2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life

     The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.

2. Nothing; no recompense.
   • 1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child

     I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.

Translations

References

• love at OneLook Dictionary Search
• love in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• love in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• levo, levo-, velo-, vole, voël

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v?/

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani love.

Noun

love f pl

1. (slang) money

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• See also prachy

Noun

love m

1. vocative singular of lov

Further reading

• love in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??v?/, [?l????], [?l???]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German l?ve, from Proto-Germanic *galaubô, cognate with German Glaube.

Noun

love c

1. (obsolete) trust, faith

   only in the phrase på tro og love (“solemnly”)

References

• “love,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lofa, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)lub?n?, cognate with Swedish lova (“to promise; to praise”), German loben (“to praise”), geloben (“to vow”), Dutch loven (“to praise”).

Verb

love (past tense lovede, past participle lovet)

1. to promise
2. (solemn) to praise

Inflection

References

• “love,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “love,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

love c

1. indefinite plural of lov

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

love

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of loven

Anagrams

• velo, voel

French

Verb

love

1. inflection of lover:
   1. first-person /third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• vélo, vole, volé

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lupa, feminine of lupus. Compare Venetian lova, French louve.

Pronunciation

Noun

love f (plural lovis)

1. she-wolf

Related terms

• lôf

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?v?/

Verb

love

1. to praise

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Inari Sami

Numeral

love

1. ten

Middle Dutch

Noun

l?ve

1. dative singular of lof

Middle English

Alternative forms

• luve, lufæ, lufe

Etymology

From Old English lufu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?luv(?)/

Noun

love (plural loves)

1. love

Descendants

• English: love
• Scots: luve, lufe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse lofa.

Verb

love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past and past participle lova or lovet, present participle lovende)

1. to praise

Verb

love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past lova or lovet or lovte or lovde, past participle lova or lovet or lovt or lovd, present participle lovende)

1. to promise

   (as an adjective) det lovede land - the Promised Land

Related terms

• løfte

References

• “love” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

love (present tense lovar or lover, past tense lova or lovde, past participle lova or lovt or lovd, present participle lovande, imperative lov)

1. Alternative form of lova

Noun

love m (definite singular loven, indefinite plural lovar, definite plural lovane)

1. Alternative form of lóve

Anagrams

• vole

Romani

Noun

love

1. plural of lovo
2. money

Descendants

• ? French: lové
• ? Hungarian: lóvé
• ? Romanian: lovea
• ? Russian: ????? (lav??)
• ? Scots: lowie
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ?????
  • Latin: lóva
• ? Slovak: lóve

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

love (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of lov

Verb

love (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of loviti

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illos (“those ones”).

Pronoun

los

1. them (masculine direct object)

Synonyms

• es

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

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

1. (definite) the

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s; cf. els.

Pronoun

los (enclitic, contracted 'ls, proclitic els)

1. them (masculine, direct or indirect object)
2. them (feminine, indirect object only)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

los m pl

1. masculine plural of lo

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?los]
• Rhymes: -os

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *?ls?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?el-. Cognate with English elk, German Elch.

Noun

los m anim

1. elk (British), moose (U.S.)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Los, which has unclear origins.

Noun

los m inan

1. lottery ticket

Declension

References

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lauss

Adjective

los

1. loose

Noun

los c (singular definite lossen, plural indefinite losser)

1. lynx

Inflection

Noun

los n (singular definite losset, plural indefinite los)

1. kick

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/
• Hyphenation: los
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-West Germanic *lus (a-stem), from Proto-Germanic *lusaz. Cognate with Ripuarian Central Franconian loss, Luxembourgish lass, lues. Related with Dutch loos, the cognate of German los, lose, English loose.

Adjective

los (comparative losser, superlative meest los or lost)

1. loose
2. separate

Inflection

Derived terms

Verb

los

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

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-Germanic *luhsuz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, to shine”) or from a substrate language. Cognate with Old Saxon lohs, Old High German luhs, Old English lox, from a similar Germanic form also Swedish lodjur. Cognates outside Germanic include Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx), Lithuanian l?šis, Old Church Slavonic ????? (rus?), Old Irish lug, Old Armenian ?????????? (lusanunk?).

Noun

los m (plural lossen, diminutive losje n)

1. (dated) lynx (specifically the Eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx)

   Synonym: lynx

Alternative forms

• losch (obsolete)

Derived terms

• pardellos

Anagrams

• sol

References

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Old Saxon l?s, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, cognate with Dutch los and English loose.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s

Adjective

los

1. open

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin laus, laudem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/

Noun

los m (plural los)

1. (obsolete) praise; acclaim

   Synonym: (modern) louange

Related terms

• louer

Further reading

• “los” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?s/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /l?s/ (regionally; chiefly as interjection or when meaning “going on”)

Etymology 1

From Old High German l?s. Compare English loose.

Adjective

los (comparative loser, superlative am losesten)

1. (colloquial or dated) Alternative form of lose (“loose”)

Adverb

los (comparative only used in combination with a verb)

1. off, rid of

2. going on

3. (colloquial, regional, Westphalia, Lower Saxony) open

Interjection

los

1. come on!, let's go!

Derived terms

Related terms

• gelosen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

los

1. singular imperative of losen

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?s]
• Hyphenation: los

Etymology 1

Shortening from losmen (“hostel”).

Noun

los (first-person possessive losku, second-person possessive losmu, third-person possessive losnya)

1. hostel
2. longhouse

Etymology 2

From Dutch loods (“pilot”).

Noun

los (first-person possessive losku, second-person possessive losmu, third-person possessive losnya)

1. (navigation) pilot boat

Etymology 3

From Dutch los (“loose”).

Adjective

los (plural los-los)

1. (colloquial) loose, free

   Synonyms: lepas, bebas

Further reading

• “los” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronoun

los

1. (accusative, dative) them, those

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

los (singular el, feminine las)

1. the (masculine plural)

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French loche (dialectal)

Noun

los

1. slug

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987). Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusaz, *lausaz (“loose, free”).

Adjective

los

1. loose, free
2. free, not encumbered
3. having lost, robbed

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: los
• Limburgish: lósj

Further reading

• “los”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “los (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lose, losse

Etymology

From Old English los.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/, /l??s/

Noun

los (uncountable)

1. loss

Descendants

• English: loss
• Scots: los, lose, lois
• Yola: lass

References

• “l??s, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from Low German lots (short form of lotsman); compare with German Lotse.

Noun

los m (definite singular losen, indefinite plural loser, definite plural losene)

1. (nautical) a pilot (person who guides ships in and out of a harbour)

References

• “los” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

los m (definite singular losen, indefinite plural losar, definite plural losane)

1. Alternative spelling of lós

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Homophones: lòs, lås

Noun

los n (definite singular loset, indefinite plural los, definite plural losa)

1. Alternative spelling of lòs

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

los (singular lo, feminine la, feminine plural las)

1. the; masculine plural definite article

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lus? (“loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- (“to cut loose; sever; lose”). Cognate with Old Norse los (“looseness; breaking up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /los/

Noun

los n (nominative plural los)

1. loss
2. destruction

Declension

Derived terms

• losian

Descendants

• Middle English: los, lose, losse
  • English: loss
  • Scots: los, lose, lois
  • Yola: lass

Old French

Etymology

See the verb loer (“to laud”).

Noun

los m (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural los)

1. glory; positive reputation

Descendants

• French: los

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also Old English l?as, Old Norse lauss.

Adjective

l?s

1. loose

Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German l?z, from Old High German hl?z, from Proto-Germanic *hlautiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/

Noun

los m inan

1. fate
2. lottery ticket

   Synonym: kupon

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) losowa?
• (adjective) losowy

Further reading

• los in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lu?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lus/, /lu?/

Pronoun

los

1. Alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *?ls?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lôs/

Noun

l?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. moose
2. elk

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ols?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ló?s/

Noun

l??s m anim

1. elk, moose

Inflection

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /los/, [los]

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s accusative plural masculine of ille.

Article

los m pl

1. the

Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronoun

los

1. accusative of ellos and ustedes (when referring to more than one man); them, you all (formal)
2. plural masculine or neuter pronoun

See also

Swedish

Noun

los

1. indefinite genitive singular of lo

Anagrams

• Sol, sol

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Borrowing from Low German lots (short form of lotsman), from Middle English lodesman; compare with German Lotse.

Noun

los m (definite singular losn, dative singular losåm, indefinite plural losa, definite plural losan)

1. (nautical) a pilot (person who guides ships in and out of a harbour)

Derived terms

• losser

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Verb

los

1. come, return (to one's home / to a place where one resides)

   Antonym: tuaj

Derived terms

• los nag

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Armenian ??? (loš).

Noun

los (genitive singular losi)

1. lavash