losse

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-.

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)

See loss.

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

• selos, sloes, soles, loses, loess

From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen

losse (imperative los, infinitive at losse, present tense losser, past tense lossede, perfect tense losset)

1. to unload, discharge (cargo)
2. (figurative, informal) to relocate (or dump) something or someone
3. (informal) to kick (something) hard and aggressively

• laste

• losning
• los

• “losse” in Den Danske Ordbog

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losse

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

losse

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlosə/

losse

1. to let, to allow

   Loss mich etwas mache.

   Let me do something.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “losse”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

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

• IPA^(key): /lɔsɛ/

losse

1. (Early Middle English, Northern, Early Scots) A lynx

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

From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.

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

1. to unload, discharge (cargo)

• laste

• lossing

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

From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.

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

1. to unload, discharge (cargo)

• lossa

• laste

• lossing

• “losse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Compare German lassen, Dutch laten, English let.

losse

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