From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2011]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], of uncertain origin. See the Old French for more.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A thin rhombus , having two acute and two obtuse angle s.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1658 | author=Sir Thomas Browne | title=The Garden of Cyrus | page=167 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=2007
|passage=Wherein the _decussis_ is made within a longilaterall square, with
opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression
making a _Rhombus_ or LOZENGE figuration [...].}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1848 | author=w:William Makepeace Thackeray | title=Vani8ty Fair | chapter=9
|passage=How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the
carriage with the LOZENGE upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2004 | author=w:Richard Fortey | title=The Earth | page=14 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=2011
|passage=The floor is constructed from marble LOZENGES and triangles of every
imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades,
framed in white.}}
1. A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat .
2. * [chapter=3]
3. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|lozengelike|lozengeways|lozengewise |conversation lozenge|lozenge
coach|throat lozenge}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[rhombus]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[medicated sweet]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] [troche] , [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [лека́рственный] [ru] , [соса́тельная] [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To form into the shape of a lozenge.
2. [en] To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.
*** Further reading
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** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]