Noun: lieu
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lieu
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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'.