glos

From the Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂lōws (“sister-in-law”). Cognates include Ancient Greek γάλως (gálōs), Old Church Slavonic зълъва (zŭlŭva) (whence Russian золо́вка (zolóvka)), Phrygian γέλαρος (gélaros), and Old Armenian տալ (tal).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡloːs/, [ɡɫ̪oːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡlos/, [ɡlɔs]

glōs f (genitive glōris); third declension

1. (Classical Latin) the sister of one’s husband, one’s sister-in-law
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 98, line 5:

     Glos, viri soror, a Graeco γαλόως.

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2. (Late Latin and Medieval Latin) the wife of one’s brother, one’s sister-in-law

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Third-declension noun.

• (wife of one’s brother): frātria (Classical)

• “glos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2. GLOS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• glōris glōs, glōris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 716/2.
• “glos”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “glōs” on page 767/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “glos”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 470/2

From Middle High German glas, from Old High German glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą (“glass”). Cognate with German Glas, English glass.

glos n

1. glass (material)
2. glass (drinking vessel)

   Synonym: bikera

• “glos” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔs/
• Rhymes: -ɔs
• Syllabification: glos

glos

1. genitive plural of glosa