lödig

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Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish løþogher, from Middle Low German lōdich. Cognate German -lötig, Norwegian Bokmål lødig, and English lot (“historical unit of weight”).

Adjective

lödig (comparative lödigare, superlative lödigast)

  1. pure, unalloyed
  2. (figurative) of reliable quality

Usage notes

Before 1855, the purity of silver was in Sweden measured in sixteenths. For example, tolvlödigt silver denoted an alloy of 12⁄16 = 75% silver and 25% copper.

Declension

Inflection of lödig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular lödig lödigare lödigast
Neuter singular lödigt lödigare lödigast
Plural lödiga lödigare lödigast
Masculine plural3 lödige lödigare lödigast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 lödige lödigare lödigaste
All lödiga lödigare lödigaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Derived terms

  • lod (“historical unit of weight”)

References

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