lausa

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, obsolete English (from Old English ), German ; also Danish, Faroese , Norwegian  and Swedish.

Verb

 * 1)  make loose; loosen (ground)

Etymology
From. Cognates include dialectal 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) loose

Etymology
. The term is thought to have existed as 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), possibly ultimately borrowed from, from , from , whence also 🇨🇬, from. However, as early as the second century, ' Truculentus uses a word which the manuscript tradition gives as lausum, the meaning of which has been debated and which has been often corrected to or , and since Schöll (1887) to lausam in the meaning known from Romance. (Alternatively, one can posit the transmitted manuscript form lausum as a neuter lemma form, from the plural of which (lausa) the feminine Romance forms derive.) :

The term lausa is unambiguously attested in Medieval Latin, but by that time is thought to be a reborrowing from.

Noun

 * 1)  flagstone, slab
 * 2) * 1328 (March), letters patent ratified by Philippe VI, quoted in 1985, Odon de Lingua de Saint-Blanquat, La fondation des bastides royales dans la sénéchausée de Toulouse aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles:
 * "la"

- Item quod habitatores possint ... capere lausam, arenam et petram de dicto loco aut suis pertinentiis et ressorto ad aedificandum et construendum dum tamen satisfia[n]t domino possessionis de qua dictae lapides, lausae et arenae capiuntur.


 * 1) * 1449, rights of the monastery of Saint-Honorat in Cannes, quoted in 1860, L. Alliez, Les îles de Lérins, Cannes et les rivages environnants, pages 433-437:
 * "la"

- Item quôd urethenus seu persona habens trainum de piscibus captis seu piscatis ad petram latam et ad lausam brachii dictae S. Margaritae, aut si contigerit cos alibi piscari super mare dicti conventûs infrà designato ipsi conventui, aut si contigeret eos alibi piscari sub districtu abbatiae, praeter ad petram altam et ad lausam dictae insulae, quae pertinent omni tempore conventui Lerinensi,


 * , medieval Galician text, quoted in 1995, Francisco Rodríguez Iglesias, María del Mar Pérez Negreira, Galicia: Historia : Galicia en la época medieval, page 380:
 * "la"

- Infra hos terminos, uidelicet, per Coua de Serpente et per petram domni Ueremundi uocatam, et inde ad cautum de Riuo Sicco, et inde ad lausam de super Curuiti, et deinde quomodo uadit ad anbas gemianas, et inde ad cautum de Fonte Sacrato.