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Webster 1913 Edition


Lues


Lu′es

,
Noun.
[L.]
(Med.)
1.
Disease, especially of a contagious kind.
[archaic]
Lues venerea
,
syphilis; – called also simply
lues
.

Definition 2024


lues

lues

See also: lũes

English

Noun

lues (uncountable)

  1. (dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
      And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues, or our pseudo-syphilis?
    • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1031:
      There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See lue.

Verb

lues

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of lue

Anagrams


Danish

Noun

lues c

  1. genitive singular indefinite of lue

French

Verb

lues

  1. feminine plural of the past participle of lire

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from luō (wash) or from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (cognate with λύω (lúō)).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.eːs/, [ˈɫʊ.eːs]

Noun

luēs f (genitive luis); third declension

  1. plague, pestilence, epidemic
  2. (figuratively) plague, misfortune
  3. (New Latin) a disease, chiefly syphilis

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular
nominative luēs
genitive luis
dative luī
accusative luem
ablative lue
vocative luēs

Verb

luēs

  1. second-person singular future active indicative of luō

References


Luxembourgish

Etymology

Formally from a variant of Old High German [Term?] lōs (loose; free; lacking) with a shortened vowel, i.e. *los (also attested through Ripuarian Central Franconian loss). The uninflected stem of this adjective develops regular into Luxemburgish lass, while the inflected stem yields lues. Compare the English cognate loose for more.

Semantically the above adjective was likely merged with Old High German līso (weak; slow; quiet), for which compare German leise (quiet). The merger, as such, is confirmed by Central Franconian loss and lies, both of which have a dated sense “weakly salted, lacking salt”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luə̯s/

Adjective

lues (masculine luesen, neuter luest, comparative méi lues, superlative am luesten)

  1. quiet
  2. slow

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin lues.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǔes/
  • Hyphenation: lu‧es

Noun

lùes m (Cyrillic spelling лу̀ес)

  1. lues

Declension

References

  • lues” in Hrvatski jezični portal