losse

See also: lösse and loße

English

Etymology 1

From Dutch los, from Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

Noun

losse (plural lossem)

1. (obsolete) A lynx.

   A losse went to prepare to hunt.

   • 1889, Henry Morley, Early English Prose Romances:

     Losse, lynx (Dutch, los)

Etymology 2

See loss.

Noun

losse (countable and uncountable, plural losses)

1. Obsolete spelling of loss.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:

     Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.

   • 1622, John Downame, chapter IX, in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 59:

     […] the Lord denounceth thoſe iudgements againſt her, from which ſpecially ſhee bleſſed her ſelfe, euen loſſe of Soueraigntie, ſlaughter and deſolation : […]

   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

     Soe they resolved with losse of their lives to recover or to end the losse of theire libertie , being overcarried indifferently with hate and disdaine , two mightie passions to drive on disordered desires

Dutch

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Adjective

losse

1. inflection of los:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Verb

losse

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lossen

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German lāzzen (in the 15th century also lassen), from Old High German lāzan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlosə/

Verb

losse

1. to let, to allow

   Loss mich etwas mache.

   Let me do something.

Inflection

Conjugation of losse

infinitive	losse
past participle	geloss
auxiliary	hon
	present tense
1st person singular	losse
2nd person singular	losst
3rd person singular	lossd
1st person  plural	losse
2nd person plural	lossd
3rd person plural	losse
	imperative
2nd person singular	loss
2nd person plural	lossd

Derived terms

• loslosse
• zulosse

 

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔsɛ/

Noun

losse

1. (Early Middle English, Northern) A lynx

Descendants

• English: losse, los, loz
• Scots: los, loz

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.

Verb

losse (imperative loss, present tense losser, passive losses, simple past and past participle lossa or losset, present participle lossende)

1. to unload, discharge (cargo)

Antonyms

• laste

Derived terms

• lossing

References

• “losse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “losse” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.

Verb

losse (present tense lossar, past tense lossa, past participle lossa, passive infinitive lossast, present participle lossande, imperative losse/loss)

1. to unload, discharge (cargo)

Alternative forms

• lossa

Antonyms

• laste

Derived terms

• lossing

References

• “losse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German lassen, Dutch laten, English let.

Verb

losse

1. to let, to allow
2. to let have
3. to leave undone
4. to leave in possession