loin

A diagram from the United States c. 1918 showing the lines between different cuts of whole sale beef, including the loin.

A diagram by the US educational publisher Pearson Scott Foresman showing terms for different cuts of pork, including the loin.

• IPA^(key): /lɔɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɪn

From Middle English loyne, from Old French loigne, from Vulgar Latin *lumbea, from Latin lumbus, of uncertain origin, possibly from Oscan-Umbrian *londwo- or Proto-Germanic *lundwuz, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“kidney, waist”). Cognate with Modern English lend (“loin”), Dutch lende, German Lende, Swedish länd (“haunch, loin”), Danish lænd, Proto-Slavic *lędvьje (Russian ля́двея (ljádveja)). Doublet of lend.

loin (plural loins)

2. The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips.

   Synonyms: lend, lumbus

   Holonym: side

   Coordinate term: flank (coordinate especially in butchery; not consistently differentiated regarding the human body)

3. Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal.

The plural loins is used for a wider body region, or specifically as a euphemism for the pubic region.

• lumbago
• lumbar

loin (plural loins)

1. Misspelling of lion.

• LINO, Lion, Nilo-, Olin, lino, lion, noil

loin

1. first-person singular past indicative of luoda

loin

1. instructive plural of loka

• ilon, lino, olin

Inherited from Latin longē, from the adjective longus (“long, far-off”). Compare Catalan lluny, archaic Spanish lueñe.

• IPA^(key): /lwɛ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -wɛ̃

loin

1. far, distant

   Synonym: éloigné

   Antonyms: près, proche

   • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:

     Est-ce que les parfums s’évaporent, ou restent-ils dans notre tête comme ces étoiles qui brillent encore, mais qui sont bien loin de la fête ?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2014, Indila, Égo

     On est loin, on est loin du Jardin d’Éden, éternelle réalité.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1996, Noir Désir, À ton étoile:

     Dis-toi qu’il n’est pas loin, et qu’on y brille, à ton étoile.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   L’église est si loin de l’usine.

   The church is so far from the factory.

• Loin is typically construed with de (“of, from”). Indeed, loin de may be thought of as a single compound preposition; for example, one says loin duquel (“far from which”), not *dont loin (“from which far”).

• éloigner (verb)
• lointain (adjective)

• “loin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• lion, Lion

• luin (obsolete)

• IPA^(key):

loin m

1. genitive singular of lon