loar

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

loar f

1. moon

• louvar

From Old Galician-Portuguese loar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), earlier louar, from Latin laudāre, present active infinitive of laudō (“I praise”), from laus (“praise”). Cognate with Portuguese louvar.

• IPA^(key): /loˈaɾ/

loar (first-person singular present loo, first-person singular preterite loei, past participle loado)

1. to commend, praise

   Synonyms: eloxiar, gabar

   • 1434, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 364:

     Primeiramente mando minna alma a Deus Padre que he Santa Triindade, tres personas en hun vocavelo et en una esençia divina que he Padre et Fillo et Espiritu Santo, que El por la sua santa misericordia et por la propia sua propiadade que el senpre ha de se a merçear que quera minna alma saluar et leuar ao seu santo reigno onde eu senpre posa loar con os seus santos et por lo aviimento do seu Fillo Ihesu Christo et por la sua saudabele morte et resurreyçon a minna alma seia salua et libre dos pecados

     Firt, I send my soul to God the Father, who is the Holy Trinity, three person in a vocable and a divine essence who is Father and Son and Holy Spirit, because Him, because of His Divine Mercy and because of His own propriety [?], that He always has; to have mercy, and to save my soul and take it to his holy kingdom where I could forever praise [Him] with His saints, and for the coming of His Son Jesus Christ, because of whose death and resurrection my soul is safe and free of sin

2. to eulogize

   Synonym: eloxiar

• loanza

• loable

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “loar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “loar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “loar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “loar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “loar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “loar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “loar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Spanish loar from Old Spanish laudar, from Latin laudāre.

• IPA^(key): /loˈaɾ/

loar (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling לואר)

1. to praise, give thanks

   אי טי לוארי קון לה ארפה ,דייו מי דייו.

   Y te loare kon la arpa, Dio, mi Dio.

   And I shall praise you upon the harp, God, my God.

• louar, louvar

From earlier louar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”), derived from laus (“praise”).

• IPA^(key): /lo.ˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

loar

1. to praise
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de Toledo, cantiga 2 (facsimile):

     Muito deuemos uarõeſ loar á ſanta maria

     Good men, we should greatly praise Holy Mary

• Galician: loar, louvar
• Portuguese: loar, louvar
• → Mirandese: lhoubar

From Old Galician-Portuguese louvar, loar, from earlier louar, from Latin laudāre (“to praise”), from laus (“praise”).

loar (first-person singular present loo, first-person singular preterite loei, past participle loado)

1. Alternative form of louvar

From Latin laudāre, possibly borrowed via French or Catalan, considering that the usual word in Spanish has always been alabar. Doublet of laudar, which was borrowed from Latin and found already in Old Spanish.

loar (first-person singular present loo, first-person singular preterite loé, past participle loado)

1. (transitive) to praise

   Synonym: alabar

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “loar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 674

• “loar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

loar

1. indefinite plural of lo