loor

From Old Cornish luir, from Proto-Brythonic *lloɨr, from Proto-Celtic *lugrā, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Breton loar and Welsh lloer.

loor f (plural loryow)

1. moon

• lorel (“lunar”)

Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).

loor f (Hebrew spelling לואור, plural loores)^[1]

1. praise (commendation)

   Synonyms: alago, alavansa, elojio

   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎^[1], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 8:

     Eia te envoca con palavras dulsis
     Con cantes i loores¹) ke tu las mereses
     Es ia tiempo ke de eia te entereses
     Ajenos se empatronan de sus posesiones
     Termine la aniada i sus maldisiones.

     It lifts you with sweet words, with songs and praises that you deserve, 'tis now time that it interest you; strangers seize its possessions. End the year and its curses.

• Commoner in the plural form.

• louvor

Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Spanish loor.

• IPA^(key): /lo.ˈoɾ/

loor m (plural loores)

1. (religion) praise; worship (devotion to a deity)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 156 (facsimile):

     Eſte miragre fez ſanta m̃ en Cuñegro p̃ un crerigo q̄ cãtaua mui bẽ as as proſas a ſſa loor. ⁊ prenderono ereges ⁊ tallaronlla lingua.

     Holy Mary worked this miracle in Cluny for a cleric who sang very well his proses in her praise, and heretics seized him and cut off his tongue.

• Galician: louvor
• Portuguese: louvor (via Old Portuguese louvor)

• loa, lodor

Deverbal from loar (“to praise”), from Latin laudāre (“to praise”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese loor.

loor m (plural loores)

1. praise (commendation)

   Synonym: loamiento

• Ladino: loor, לואור
• Spanish: loor

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “loor”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 310

Inherited from Old Spanish loor (“praise”), from loar, laudar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”).

• IPA^(key): /loˈoɾ/ [loˈoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: lo‧or

loor m (plural loores)

1. (literary, formal) praise

   Synonyms: alabanza, elogio, enaltecimiento, halago, loa

• “loor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• loro, olor, orlo, orló, rolo, roló