HOW TO PRONOUNCE
loci
/ˈloʊsaɪ/
Press play to hear how to pronounce loci.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:05
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does loci mean?
noun
- Alternative form of locie (“locomotive”).
- plural of locus
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˈloʊsaɪ/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
Gloom, the genius loci at all times hitherto, was now totally overthrown, less by the lantern light than by what the lantern lighted.
“Abducendus etiam nonnunquam animus est ad alia studia, sollicitudines, curas, negotia: loci denique mutatione, tanquam aegroti non convalescentes, saepe curandus est.”
More book examples (3)
Mr. Youatt, qui diu in Hortis Zoologicis (Bestiariis) medicus animalium erat, vir in rebus observandis cautus et sagax, hoc mihi certissime probavit, et curatores ejusdem loci et alii e ministris confirmaverunt.
To get there and live there, to move among the churches and halls and become imbued with the genius loci, had seemed to his dreaming youth, as the spot shaped its charms to him from its halo on the horizon, the obvious and ideal thing to do.
But it is at least problematical, whether an unjust sentence against a foreigner, where the subject of controversy was wholly relative to the lex loci, would not, if unredressed, be an aggression upon his sovereign, as well as one which violated the stipulations of a treaty or the general law of nations.