lode
English
Etymology
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ləʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /loʊd/
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- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ləʉd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊd
- Homophones: load, lowed
Noun
lode (plural lodes)
- (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
- (dialectal) A watercourse.
- (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
- 1967, Henry C. Berg, Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14:
- The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.
- (by extension) A rich source of supply.
- 2019 September 25, Gary Stix, “Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets”, in Scientific American:
- In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.
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Cimbrian
Noun
lode m
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin laudem, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lēwt-, *lēwdʰ- (“song, sound”), from *lēw- (“to sound, resound, sing out”).
Alternative forms
Noun
lode f (plural lodi)
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Further reading
- lode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
lode f pl
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Latvian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Low German lode (“piece of lead (used as weight), plummet”), or perhaps from an East Frisian word (compare Saterland Frisian Lood) or Middle Dutch lood, which all had the same meaning (compare German Lot (“plummet, solder”)), itself a borrowing from Celtic (originally meaning “easily melting metal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”), whence also Latvian plūst (“to stream, to flow”). This borrowing is first attested in 17th-century dictionaries.
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Noun
lode f (5th declension)
- (mathematics) sphere
- lodes diametrs ― diameter of a sphere
- lodes rādiuss ― radius of a sphere
- lodes tilpums ― volume of a sphere
- object with spherical form; (sports) ball
- zemes lode, zemeslode ― the Earth Globe
- koka, dzelzs lode ― wood, iron ball
- grūst lodi ― to push a ball
- bullet, cannonball
- iešaut kādam lodi krūtīs ― to shoot a bullet in someone's chest
- lielgabala lode ― cannonball
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Etymology 2
On the southernmost Livonian toponyms Dzintra Hirša mentions a lake Lúodis in Zarasai District Municipality, Lithuania (as well as Luõdes ezers and Luodezers in Latvia) connecting these with Livonian lūod (“northwest”) and mentioning Latvian lodes vējš (“northwestern wind”) as being from the same source.
Noun
lode f (5th declension)
- (dialectal, usually attributively in the expression lodes vējš) northwest
- lodes vējš ― northwestern wind
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “lode”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
- ^ Dzintra Hirša, Lībieši un lībiešu izcelsmes vietvārdi Latvijā in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, page 213
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
lode
Slovak
Noun
lode
- inflection of loď: