different between lieu vs ersatz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: loo (in some accents)

Noun

lieu (uncountable)

1. place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of

Translations

Anagrams

• euil, liue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ljø/
• Homophones: lieue, lieus, lieux, lieues

Etymology 1

From Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit
• place

Derived terms

Related terms

• louer
• loyer
• location

Etymology 2

From Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. any of several fish from the Pollachius family.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “lieu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French leu.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux or lieus)

1. place

Descendants

• French: lieu

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse lýðrr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. (Jersey) whiting (fish)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) liug
• (Sutsilvan) liac
• (Surmiran) li
• (Puter, Vallader) lö

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

lieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) place

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ersatz (“replacement”); and from the German ersetzen (“to replace”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???zæts/, IPA^(key): /???sæts/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????s?ts/, IPA^(key): /????z?ts/, IPA^(key): /????s??ts/, IPA^(key): /????z??ts/, IPA^(key): /??sæts/
• (US) IPA^(key): [????s??ts]
• Hyphenation: er?satz

Adjective

ersatz (comparative more ersatz, superlative most ersatz)

1. made in imitation; artificial, especially of a poor quality
   • 1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, The Mancroft Essays, Pinchbeck, page 164 (possibly published before in The Saturday Review in 1917–1921):

     In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.

   • 1929, "Zeppelining," Time, 16 Sep.,

     Ersatzgas, Ersatzpfennige. Ersatz has become a brave word in Germany. As a substantive it means War Reparations. As part of compounded words it means substitute.

   • 2001, The New Yorker, 15 Oct,

     The avant-garde's opposite number, in Greenberg's scheme, is kitsch, "ersatz culture"—art for capitalism's new man (who turns out to be no different from Fascism's or Communism's new man).

   • 2003, The New Yorker, 17 & 24 Feb,

     The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance (complete with powdered wigs and simulated copulation) that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing.

   • 2004, The New Yorker, 31 May,

     The crowd wandered out to a huge party on the ersatz city blocks of the Paramount lot.

   Synonyms: artificial, faux, imitation, knock off, (obsolete) gingerbread

Noun

ersatz (plural ersatzes)

1. something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

   Synonyms: imitation, knock off

Translations

See also

• ansatz (mathematics, physics)

Anagrams

• Artzes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ersatz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zats/

Noun

ersatz m (plural ersatz)

1. ersatz

Further reading

• “ersatz” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).