English

Abbreviation

Glos

1. (Britain, postal abbreviation) Gloucestershire

Latin

Noun

glōs f ‎(genitive glōris); third declension

1. (Classical) the sister of one’s husband, one’s sister-in-law
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   • AD 8th C., Paulus Diaconus (author), Karl Otfried Müller (editor), Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum (1839), page 98, line 5:

     Glos, viri soror, a Graeco γαλόως.

2. (Late Latin and Medieval Latin) the wife of one’s brother, one’s sister-in-law
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Declension

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (wife of one’s brother): frātria (Classical)

References

• glos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2. GLOS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “glōs, glōris”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 716/2.
• glos in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “glōs” on page 767/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “glos” on page 470/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)