Noun: loque
Gender: f
m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | loque |
| Singular f | loque |
| Plural m | loques |
| Plural f | loques |
Sample Sentences
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Le loque était composé de quatre pentécostys, et comme la pentécostys était de cent vingt-huit hommes, le loque en contenait cinq cent douze. [1836, Œuvres complètes de Thucydide et de Xénophon, page 183:]
Nouns inflected like loque
fétichiste,
modérantiste,
odontologiste,
fiduciaire,
cryptanalyste,
selfie,
neurologiste,
Sud-Est-Asiatique,
acridophage,
schizo,
motoneigiste,
bolchévique,
urbaniste,
activiste,
phalliste,
acrostiche,
électrosensible,
humaniste,
aromathérapeute,
œconomiste, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French loque, loc (“lock of hair; tuft of coarse wool”), from Middle Dutch locke (“curl”) or Middle English lok (“lock of hair”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *lokk (“lock (of hair)”), from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz (“lock (of hair)”). More at English lock. See: Middle English Nouns '
lok', English Nouns '
lock'.
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