losenge

losenge (plural losenges)

1. Obsolete form of lozenge.

• Gleeson

From Old French losenge (“lozenge, rhombus”).

• losange, losinge, lossenge, lozenge, lozingge

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔzɛnd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈlɔzand͡ʒ(ə)/

losenge (plural losenges)

1. lozenge, rhombus
2. (cooking) diamond-shaped cake

• English: lozenge
• Scots: lozen

• “losenǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

losenge

1. alternative form of losengen

From Frankish *lausungu (“lie, deception, flattery”),^[1] from Proto-Germanic *lausungō (“release, removal, lack, emptiness, falsehood”).^[2] Cognate with Old English lēasung (“falsehood, fiction, hypocrisy, deception, deceitfulness, artice”) (modern English leasing (“lying, fraud, falsehood”)). See also Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 (laus).

• losange, lozenge, lozange, lousenge, loseinge, losainge

losenge oblique singular, f (oblique plural losenges, nominative singular losenge, nominative plural losenges)

2. flattery; especially in order to trick or deceive.

• Middle French: losenge, losange

Uncertain. Perhaps from a special use of Etymology 1 above referring to the shape of slab tombstones containing flattering epithets; or possibly from *lose (“flag-stone”), from Vulgar Latin *lausa. Alternatively from Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj, “a kind of almond confection, sometimes coming in a lozenge-like shape”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (lwcynk' /⁠lōzēnag⁠/).^[3]

• loseigne, losinge, lozenge

losenge oblique singular, f (oblique plural losenges, nominative singular losenge, nominative plural losenges)

1. lozenge (shape)

• Middle French: losange, losenge, lozenge
  • French: losange
    • → Portuguese: losango
• → Middle English: losenge, losange, losinge, lossenge, lozenge, lozingge
  • English: lozenge
  • Scots: lozen
• → Italian: losanga
• → Old Occitan: lausange^[4]
  • Catalan: losange
  • Occitan: lausange
• → Spanish: losange