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# loseth

«loseth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **loses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

loses

### part of speech

verb, old form of «loses» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«loseth» means «loses», a form of «lose»: To lose is to no longer have something, often by mistake: lose a glove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loseth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he loseth» = «he loses».

### examples

- If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire. (Torah EXO.22.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loseth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «lose», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «loseth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loseth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.