los
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los
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English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English lusk, from Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz. Cognate with Scots los, Saterland Frisian Luks, Low German Luks, Dutch los, German Luchs, Luxembourgish Luuss.
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Noun
los (plural loses)
- (obsolete) A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.
- Synonym: lynx
- The los had been brought from a northern part of the United States.
- 1592, Thomas Thomasius, Thomae Thomasii Dictionarium tertio ... emendatum ... et longe auctius ... redditum.:
- A beaſt like unto a wolfe having many ſpottes, and being exceeding quicke of ſight: a wolfe like an hart, a Los or Lynx.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English los, from Old English los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą, from Proto-Indo-European *lews-.
Noun
los (plural loses)
- Obsolete form of loss.
- 1673, [Joseph Hill], The Interest Of theſe United Provinces. Being a Defence of the Zeelanders Choice […], Middelburg: Printed by Thomas Berry, page [75]:
- If we come under France, we have not onely Spaine our enimie by Sea and Land (as we have ſhewne) but the los of our Spaniſh Trade, and the hazarding of our whole Levant Traffick: And if we rightly calculate, that amounts to no ſmall part of our Commerce.
Etymology 3
Noun
los (uncountable)
- Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”).
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Etymology
Verb
los (present los, present participle losende, past participle gelos)
Aragonese
Etymology
Pronoun
los
- them (masculine direct object)
Synonyms
Asturian
Alternative forms
- llos (archaic)
Etymology
Article
los m pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, feminine plural les)
- (definite) the
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin illōs; cf. els.
Pronoun
los (enclitic, contracted 'ls, proclitic els)
- them (masculine, direct or indirect object)
- perdoneu-los ― forgive them
- doneu-los una moneda ― give them a coin
- them (feminine, indirect object only)
- digueu-los la veritat ― tell them the truth
Usage notes
Declension
| strong/subject | weak (direct object) | weak (indirect object) | possessive | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| proclitic | enclitic | proclitic | enclitic | |||||
| singular | 1st person |
standard | jo, mi3 | em, m’ | -me, ’m | em, m’ | -me, ’m | meu |
| majestic1 | nós | ens | -nos, ’ns | ens | -nos, ’ns | nostre | ||
| 2nd person |
standard | tu | et, t’ | -te, ’t | et, t’ | -te, ’t | teu | |
| formal1 | vós | us | -vos, -us | us | -vos, -us | vostre | ||
| very formal2 | vostè | el, l’ | -lo, ’l | li | -li | seu | ||
| 3rd person |
m | ell | el, l’ | -lo, ’l | li | -li | seu | |
| f | ella | la, l’4 | -la | li | -li | seu | ||
| n | ho | -ho | li | -li | seu | |||
| plural | ||||||||
| 1st person | nosaltres | ens | -nos, ’ns | ens | -nos, ’ns | nostre | ||
| 2nd person |
standard | vosaltres | us | -vos, -us | us | -vos, -us | vostre | |
| formal2 | vostès | els | -los, ’ls | els | -los, ’ls | seu | ||
| 3rd person |
m | ells | els | -los, ’ls | els | -los, ’ls | seu | |
| f | elles | les | -les | els | -los, ’ls | seu | ||
| 3rd person reflexive | si | es, s’ | -se, ’s | es, s’ | -se, ’s | seu | ||
| adverbial | ablative/genitive | en, n’ | -ne, ’n | |||||
| locative | hi | -hi | ||||||
1 Behaves grammatically as plural. 2 Behaves grammatically as third person.
3 Only as object of a preposition. 4 Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin illōs, from ille.
Article
los m pl
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