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.

• IPA^(key): /ljuː/
• (yod-dropping) IPA^(key): /luː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: lew, Liu, lue; loo, Lou, lu (yod-dropping)

lieu (uncountable)

1. A place or stead.

• euil, liue

• IPA^(key): /ljø/

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• Homophones: lieue, lieus, lieux, lieues

Inherited from Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

lieu m (plural lieux)

1. place

   Synonyms: endroit, place

2. (geometry) locus (set of all points whose location satisfies or is determined by one or more specified conditions)

• louer
• loyer
• location

Inherited from Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. any of several fish from the Pollachius family

• “lieu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old French leu.

lieu m (plural lieux or lieus)

1. place

• French: lieu
• → English: lieu

Borrowed from Old Norse lýðrr.

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. (Jersey) whiting (fish)

• liug (Sursilvan)
• liac (Sutsilvan)
• li (Surmiran)
• lö (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin locus.

lieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) place