different between ues vs lues

English

Noun

ues

1. (rare) plural of u, the name of the letter U.

Proper noun

ues

1. Acronym of Upper East Side (neighborhood in borough of Manhattan, New York City, USA.

Anagrams

• EUS, SEU, Sue, sue, use

English

Etymology 1

From Latin lues (“plague”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?lu?i?z/

Noun

lues (uncountable)

1. (dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues, or our pseudo-syphilis?

   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1031:

     There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.

Derived terms

• luetic

Etymology 2

See lue.

Verb

lues

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lue

Anagrams

• LEUs, Luse, slue

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lu?s (“plague”), from Latin luere (“to loose, release, atone for”). Compare luxace (“luxation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lu?s]
• Hyphenation: lu?es

Noun

lues f or m inan

1. (indeclinable, medicine) syphilis [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• syfilis

Derived terms

• luetický
• luetik

References

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Elsu
• selu

Danish

Noun

lues c

1. indefinite genitive singular of lue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly/

Verb

lues

1. feminine plural of the past participle of lire

Anagrams

• élus
• seul

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lues (“syphilis”), from Latin lu?s (“plague”), from Latin luere (“to loose, release, atone for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu.es/
• Hyphenation: lu?és

Noun

lués (first-person possessive luesku, second-person possessive luesmu, third-person possessive luesnya)

1. syphilis

   Synonyms: raja singa, sifilis

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from lu? (“wash”) or from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) (cognate with ???? (lûma, “dirt”) and Old Irish loth (“mud”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lu.e?s/, [???ue?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lu.es/, [?lu??s]

Noun

lu?s f sg (genitive luis); third declension

1. plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. (figuratively) plague, misfortune
3. (New Latin) a disease, chiefly syphilis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

Verb

lu?s

1. second-person singular future active indicative of lu?

References

• lues1 in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lues in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lues in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “lu?s” on page 1154/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German l?s, from Old High German *los, variant of l?s (“loose; free; lacking; sly, deceitful”). Compare for the short vowel Ripuarian Central Franconian loss, Dutch los. The uninflected stem of this adjective develops regularly into Luxembourgish lass, while the inflected stem yields lues. See the English cognate loose for more.

Semantically the above adjective was likely merged with Old High German l?so (“weak; slow; quiet”), for which compare German leise (“quiet”). Such semantic interaction of the two words is corroborated by Ripuarian loss and lies, both of which have a dated sense “weakly salted, lacking salt”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu??s/

Adjective

lues (masculine luesen, neuter luest, comparative méi lues, superlative am luesten)

1. quiet
2. slow

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From German Lues

Noun

lues n (uncountable)

1. syphilis

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin lues.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?es/
• Hyphenation: lu?es

Noun

lùes m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. lues

Declension

References

• “lues” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal