different between zoos vs loos

English

Noun

zoos

1. plural of zoo

Danish

Noun

zoos

1. indefinite genitive singular of zoo

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

zoos

1. plural of zoo

Spanish

Noun

zoos m pl

1. plural of zoo

Swedish

Noun

zoos

1. indefinite genitive singular of zoo

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