Dictionary

lozenge en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlɔzɪnd͡ʒ/ (Australia)
• /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒ/ (UK)
• (Australia) audio
• /ˈlɑzɪnd͡ʒ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:shapes) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
   • How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman! 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair:
   • His sloppy socks were of scarlet wool with lilac lozenges; […] 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 1.1, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 7:
   • 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. 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 14:
   • 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 [...]. 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 167:
2. A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
   • In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges. 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012:
   • One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

lozenge coach · lozengewise · lozengelike · throat lozenge · conversation lozenge · lozengeways

Hypernyms

rhombus

Relateds

lozenze · lozengy

Synonyms

pastille · lozzy · throat pastille · troche · diamond

Translations (66)

ca pastilla (medicated sweet) · id belah ketupat (rhombus) · yue 喉糖 (medicated sweet) · it losanga (rhombus) · ru [лека́рственный] ледене́ц (medicated sweet) · ru [соса́тельная] табле́тка (medicated sweet) · cs routa (rhombus) · es pastilla (medicated sweet) · nl keelpastille (medicated sweet) · fr pastille (medicated sweet) · el ρόμβος (rhombus) · enm losenge (rhombus) · pt rombo (rhombus) · ro pastilă (medicated sweet) · pdt Pell (medicated sweet) · de Hustenbonbon (medicated sweet) · la pastillus (medicated sweet) · cmn 菱形 (rhombus) · fr rhombus (rhombus) · ja のどあめ (medicated sweet) · de Lutschbonbon (medicated sweet) · es losange (rhombus) · hu rombusz (rhombus) · cs kosočtverec (rhombus) · fi vinoneliö (rhombus) · ru пасти́лка (medicated sweet) · fi salmiakki (rhombus) · it pastiglia (medicated sweet) · pt losango (rhombus) · bg ромб (rhombus) · es rombo (rhombus) · nb pastill (medicated sweet) · mk пастила (medicated sweet) · sv ruta (rhombus) · ru ромб (rhombus) · ga muileata (rhombus) · pl romb (rhombus) · fi neljäkäs (rhombus) · grc ἔκλειγμα (medicated sweet) · ja 錠剤 (medicated sweet) · ar مُعَيَّن (rhombus) · cmn 含片 (medicated sweet) · tr eşkenar dörtgen (rhombus) · tr pastil (medicated sweet) · ca losange (rhombus) · sv snedruta (rhombus) · nl pastille (medicated sweet) · ja 菱 (rhombus) · ko 마름모 (rhombus) · ca rombe (rhombus) · fi salmiakkiruutu (rhombus) · fa لوزی (rhombus) · ga losainn (medicated sweet) · ja トローチ (medicated sweet) · hu pasztilla (medicated sweet) · fr losange (rhombus) · es lisonja (rhombus) · fi kurkkupastilli (medicated sweet) · pt pastilha (medicated sweet) · de Pastille (medicated sweet) · nl ruit (rhombus) · ja ロズンジ (medicated sweet) · fa مکیدنی (medicated sweet) · it rombo (rhombus) · nn pastill (medicated sweet) · de Raute (rhombus)

lozenge en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈlɔzɪnd͡ʒ/ (Australia)
• /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒ/ (UK)
• (Australia) audio
• /ˈlɑzɪnd͡ʒ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.
2. (transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.

Forms