loc

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English

Etymology 1

Clipping of dreadlock.

Alternative forms

• 'loc

Noun

loc (plural locs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.

Derived terms

• loc'd

Etymology 2

Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

Etymology 3

Noun

loc (plural locs)

1. (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōk, IPA^(key): /ləʊk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk

Adjective

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

1. (US, slang) Clipping of loco (“crazy”).

Derived terms

• loced out

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “loc adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• -col-, CLO, COL, Clo, Col., OCL, OLC, col, col-, col.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lātjā, from the same root as lot (“teardrop”).

Noun

loc m (plural loce, definite locja, definite plural locet)

1. dear, darling

Related terms

• lot
• loke
• loçkë

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• locu

Etymology

From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

Noun

loc n (plural locuri)

1. place, location
2. land, soil, earth
3. country, region

Synonyms

• (land, earth, soil): tsarã, pimintu
• (region, country): nai, stat, duvleti, vãsilii

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish loc (“hindrance”), from Middle English lok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɔk/

Noun

loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)

1. (obsolete) hindrance

Verb

loc (present analytic locann, future analytic locfaidh, verbal noun locadh, past participle loctha)

1. Ulster form of loic (“to shirk, flinch”)

Conjugation

Further reading

• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 82

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *lok (“shutter, lock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lok/

Noun

loc n

1. lock
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilus, Bishop"

2. that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
3. an enclosed space, enclosure, fold

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: lok, loc, lock, loke
  • English: lock
  • Scots: lock
  • Yola: lauckès (plural)
• → Anglo-Norman: loc
  • ⇒ Anglo-Norman: loquet
    • Middle French: loquet
      • French: loquet
        • → English: locket
        • → Italian: lucchetto
        • → Lombard: lochet
        • → Portuguese: aloquete, loquete
    • → Middle English: locket
      • English: locket

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loːk/

Interjection

lōc

1. Alternative form of lōca

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English loc

Noun

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

1. lock
   • (Can we date this quote?), La Vie de St Thomas

Derived terms

• loquet

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (loc)
• loc on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *llog (whence Welsh llog), from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l͈oɡ]

Noun

loc m

1. place (usually inhabited, or suited thereto)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23^d23

Inflection

Derived terms

• locdatu

Descendants

• Irish: log

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “loc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• loic
• luec

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

Noun

loc m (oblique plural locs, nominative singular locs, nominative plural loc)

1. place

Descendants

• Occitan: lòc, luec, luòc

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “locus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 392

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin locus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lok/
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

loc n (plural locuri)

1. place, location

Declension

Derived terms

• deloc
• înlocui
• lăsa loc de bună ziua
• lua loc

Related terms

• local
• localitate
• locație

See also

• locui

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔk/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lock.

Noun

loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)

1. lock (on a canal)

Etymology 2

Noun

loc

1. Soft mutation of lloc (“enclosure, pen”).

Mutation