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LATIN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

locus.

seat, rank, position; soldier's post; quarters; category; book passage, topic; place, territory/locality/neighborhood/region; position/point; aim point; site; part of the body; female genitals (pl.); grounds of proof;

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈɫɔ.kʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈlɔː.kus]
  1. place (referring to a specific location)

    declension-2 · masculine
    aliquem in alicuius locum substituere
  2. a passage of literature

    declension-2 · masculine
  3. opportunity; cause; occasion; grounds

    declension-2 · masculine
  4. a region or general geographic area

    declension-2 · in-plural · masculine · neuter · singular
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *stel-der. Proto-Italic *stlokos? Old Latin stlocus Latin locus Inherited from Old Latin stlocus, possibly from Proto-Italic *stlokos, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”). However, De Vaan is skeptical of this derivation due to the suffix *-okos not being attested in any other word, and leaves the origin open.

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