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loc

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English

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of dreadlock.

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Noun

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loc (plural locs)

  1. (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.
    • 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette‎[1]:
      Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.
    • 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
      Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.
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Verb

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loc (third-person singular simple present locs, present participle locing, simple past and past participle loced)

  1. (informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.
    • 1996, Hype Hair, page 42:
      Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.

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Noun

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loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

Etymology 3

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Noun

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loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

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

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Adjective

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loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *lātjā, from the same root as lot (“teardrop”).[1]

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

  1. dear, darling
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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “loc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 230

Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

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loc n (plural locuri)

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

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Irish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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loc m (genitive singular loic, nominative plural loic)

  1. (obsolete) hindrance

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

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

Conjugation

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conjugation of loc (first conjugation – A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present locaim locann tú;
locair† 		locann sé, sí locaimid locann sibh locann siad;
locaid† 		a locann; a locas loctar
past loc mé; locas loc tú; locais loc sé, sí locamar; loc muid loc sibh; locabhair loc siad; locadar a loc /
ar loc* 		locadh
past habitual locainn loctá locadh sé, sí locaimis; locadh muid locadh sibh locaidís; locadh siad a locadh /
a locadh* 		loctaí
future locfaidh mé;
locfad 		locfaidh tú;
locfair† 		locfaidh sé, sí locfaimid;
locfaidh muid 		locfaidh sibh locfaidh siad;
locfaid† 		a locfaidh; a locfas locfar
conditional locfainn locfá locfadh sé, sí locfaimis; locfadh muid locfadh sibh locfaidís; locfadh siad a locfadh /
a locfadh* 		locfaí
subjunctive present go loca mé;
go locad† 		go loca tú;
go locair† 		go loca sé, sí go locaimid;
go loca muid 		go loca sibh go loca siad;
go locaid† 		— go loctar
past dá locainn dá loctá dá locadh sé, sí dá locaimis;
dá locadh muid 		dá locadh sibh dá locaidís;
dá locadh siad 		— dá loctaí
imperative locaim loc locadh sé, sí locaimis locaigí;
locaidh† 		locaidís — loctar
verbal noun locadh
past participle loctha

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form

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Istro-Romanian

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Etymology

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From Latin locus.

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loc n

  1. place, location

Megleno-Romanian

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Etymology

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From Latin locus.[1]

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loc n (plural locur or loață)

  1. place, location

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  • Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
  1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/loc

Old English

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Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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loc n

  1. lock
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilus, Bishop"
      Uton belucan þas circan and loc geinseglian and ġe ealle siðþan waciað þreo niht wuniġende on gebedum and...
      Let us lock up this church, and seal the lock and do ye all afterward watch three nights, continuing in prayer and...'
  2. that by which anything is closed (e.g. bolt, bar, etc.)
  3. an enclosed space, enclosure, fold
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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative loc locu
accusative loc locu
genitive loces loca
dative loce locum
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Etymology 2

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Interjection

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lōc

  1. Alternative form of lōca

Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old English loc

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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
      Mes a cel ore esteit a un grant loc fermee
      But at this hour, it was closed with a big lock

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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

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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. 23d23
      Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.
      Though he may go into a higher place, he is not the higher; this is not the case for us, for we are the higher through going into the high places.

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative loc locL luicL
Vocative luic locL lucuH
Accusative locN locL lucuH
Genitive luicL loc locN
Dative lucL locaib locaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Mutation

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Mutation of loc
radical lenition nasalization
loc
also lloc after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		loc
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Old Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin locus.

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Noun

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

  1. place

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lok/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ok

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loc n (plural locuri)

  1. place, location
  2. stead

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative loc locul locuri locurile
genitive-dative loc locului locuri locurilor
vocative locule locurilor

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English lock.

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loc m (plural lociau, not mutable)

  1. lock (on a canal)

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loc

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

Mutation

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Mutated forms of lloc
radical soft nasal aspirate
lloc loc unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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