lieu
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lieu"
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”). Doublet of locus. Attested earlier and in Middle English only as part of the partially calqued phrase in lieu of.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ljuː/
- (yod-dropping) IPA(key): /luː/
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: lew, Liu, lue; loo, Lou, lu (yod-dropping)
Noun
[edit]lieu (uncountable)
Related terms
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ljø/
Audio: (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Homophones: lieue, lieus, lieux, lieues
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).
Noun
[edit]lieu m (plural lieux)
- place
- (geometry) locus (set of all points whose location satisfies or is determined by one or more specified conditions)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.
Noun
[edit]lieu m (plural lieus)
- any of several fish from the Pollachius family
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lieu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French leu.
Noun
[edit]lieu m (plural lieux or lieus)
Descendants
[edit]Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Norse lýðrr.
Noun
[edit]lieu m (plural lieus)
Romansh
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lieu m
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