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

• luetic

Etymology 2

See lue.

Verb

lues

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

Anagrams

• slue

Danish

Noun

lues c

1. genitive singular indefinite of lue

French

Verb

lues

1. feminine plural of the past participle of lire

Anagrams

• élus
• seul

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.

Verb

luēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of luō

References

• lues1 in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lues in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lues”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• “luēs” on page 1154/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

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