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loyal
English
Alternative forms
- loyall (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French loyal, from Old French loial, leial, leal, from Latin l?g?lis. Doublet of legal and leal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l???l/
- Rhymes: -???l
Adjective
loyal (comparative loyaler or loyaller, superlative loyalest or loyallest)
- Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
- Firm in allegiance to a person or institution.
- Faithful to a person or cause.
Antonyms
- disloyal
- fickle
- treacherous
Derived terms
- loyal toast
- loyally
- loyalist
Related terms
- loyalty
Translations
Anagrams
- Yolla, alloy, yallo
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French loyal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /løja?l/, [l??jæ??l]
Adjective
loyal
- loyal
Inflection
Derived terms
- illoyal
- loyalitet
French
Etymology
From Old French loial (with various alternative forms: leial, leal, loyel) from Latin l?g?lis. Equivalent to loi +? -al. Doublet of légal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lwa.jal/
- Homophones: loyale, loyales
Adjective
loyal (feminine singular loyale, masculine plural loyaux, feminine plural loyales)
- loyal
Related terms
- loi
- loyauté
References
Further reading
- “loyal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Etymology
Borrowed from French loyal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo?ja?l/, /lo?a?ja?l/
Adjective
loyal (comparative loyaler, superlative am loyalsten)
- loyal
Declension
Antonyms
- illoyal
Related terms
- Loyalist
- Loyalität
Further reading
- “loyal” in Duden online
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French loial.
Adjective
loyal m (feminine singular loyale, masculine plural loyaux, feminine plural loyales)
- loyal
Descendants
- French: loyal
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (loial, supplement)
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lasting
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?læst??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??st??/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): /?le?st??/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?last??/
- Rhymes: -??st??, -æst??
- Hyphenation: last?ing
Adjective
lasting (comparative more lasting, superlative most lasting)
- Persisting for an extended period of time.
- Synonyms: abiding, durable; see also Thesaurus:lasting
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 249,[1]
- […] hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry
- Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.
- 1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, Act V, p. 63,[2]
- Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]
- 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 11,[3]
- I knew that nought was lasting, but now even
- Change grows too changeable, without being new:
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 34, p. 311,[4]
- Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.
- (obsolete) Persisting forever.
- Synonyms: eternal, everlasting; see also Thesaurus:eternal
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act 5, Scene 7,[6]
- I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
- Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
- And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
- His soul and body to their lasting rest.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, p. 24,[7]
- Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
Derived terms
- lastingly
- lastingness
Translations
Verb
lasting
- present participle of last
Noun
lasting (plural lastings)
- (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
- Synonyms: continuance, duration, endurance
- 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334,[8]
- But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
- 1651, John Donne, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, dedicatory epistle,[9]
- […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 2, Chapter 10, § 4, p. 65,[10]
- But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]
- A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes.
- Synonym: everlasting
- The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
Anagrams
- Gatlins, salting, slating, staling
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From laste +? -ing
Noun
lasting f or m (definite singular lastinga or lastingen, indefinite plural lastinger, definite plural lastingene)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
- lossing
References
- “laste_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From laste +? -ing
Noun
lasting f (definite singular lastinga, indefinite plural lastingar, definite plural lastingane)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
- lossing
References
- “lasting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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