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lieu

noun
/ljuː/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin locus Old French leu Middle French lieubor. English lieu 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.

  1. derived from locum
  2. derived from leu
  3. borrowed from lieu

Definitions

  1. A place or stead.

  2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lieu. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA