lieu – English noun declension

English noun forms of lieu

Noun: lieu
Singularlieu

Sample Sentences

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
3. Proto-Italic *stlokos?
4. Old Latin stlocus
5. Latin locus
6. Old French leu
7. Middle French lieubor.
8. English lieu
9. 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. See: Latin Nouns 'locum'.