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English

Etymology 1

Clipping of dreadlock.

Alternative forms

Noun

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:
      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.
Derived terms

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

Etymology 3

Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

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

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Adjective

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

  1. (US, slang) Clipping of loco (crazy).
Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. dear, darling

References

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

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin locus. Compare Daco-Romanian loc.

Noun

loc n (plural locuri)

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

Synonyms

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

loc n

  1. place, location

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin locus.[1]

Noun

loc n (plural locur or loață)

  1. place, location

References

  • Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

Old English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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
Declension

Strong a-stem:

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Interjection

lōc

  1. Alternative form of lōca

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English loc

Noun

loc oblique singularm (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

Derived terms

References

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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. 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

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

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.

Further reading

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. place

Descendants

References

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

loc n (plural locuri)

  1. place, location
  2. stead

Declension

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

Derived terms

See also

References

Welsh

Pronunciation

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

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.