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Cornish
Etymology
From Old Cornish luir, from Proto-Brythonic *lloɨr, from Proto-Celtic *lugrā, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Breton loar and Welsh lloer.
Noun
loor f (plural loryow)
- moon
See also
Ladino
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).
Noun
loor f (Hebrew spelling לואור, plural loores)[1]
- praise (commendation)
- Synonyms: alago, alavansa, elojio
1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur, Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 8:Eia te envoca con palavras dulsis
Con cantes i loores¹) ke tu las mereses
Es ia tiempo ke de eia te entereses
Ajenos se empatronan de sus posesiones
Termine la aniada i sus maldisiones.- It lifts you with sweet words, with songs and praises that you deserve, 'tis now time that it interest you; strangers seize its possessions. End the year and its curses.
Usage notes
- Commoner in the plural form.
References
- ^ “loor”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Spanish loor.
Pronunciation
Noun
loor m (plural loores)
- (religion) praise; worship (devotion to a deity)
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- Eſte miragre fez ſanta m̃ en Cuñegro p̃ un crerigo q̄ cãtaua mui bẽ as as proſas a ſſa loor. ⁊ prenderono ereges ⁊ tallaronlla lingua.
- Holy Mary worked this miracle in Cluny for a cleric who sang very well his proses in her praise, and heretics seized him and cut off his tongue.
Descendants
Old Spanish
Etymology
Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese loor.
Noun
loor m (plural loores)
- praise (commendation)
- Synonym: loamiento
Descendants
References
- Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “loor”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 310
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /loˈoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: lo‧or
Noun
loor m (plural loores)
- (literary, formal) praise
- Synonyms: alabanza, elogio, enaltecimiento, halago, loa
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