lode

See also lodē

English

Etymology

Etymologically identical with load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lád "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

• (RP) IPA: /ləʊd/
• Rhymes: -əʊd

Noun

lode (plural lodes)

1. (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
2. (dialectal) a watercourse
3. (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
4. (by extension) A rich source of supply.

Translations

loadstone — see lodestone

vein of metallic ore

• Czech: rudná žíla (cs) f
• Finnish: suoni (fi), malmisuoni (fi)
• French: filon (fr) m
• German: Ader (de) f

• Irish: síog (ga) f
• Italian: filone (it) m
• Japanese: 鉱脈 (kōmyaku)
• Spanish: filón, veta

rich source of supply

• Finnish: suoni (fi)

• Spanish: montón (es) m

Related terms

• lodestar
• loadstone
• mother lode

Anagrams

• dole, leod, olde, OLED

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

lode f (plural lodi)

1. praise

Related terms

• lodevole
• lodare

Anagrams

• Delo, ledo

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Latvian

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Lode (1, 2)

Lodes (3)

Etymology

A borrowing 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.

Noun

lode f, 5th declension

1. (mathematics) sphere

   lodes diametrs — diameter of a sphere

   lodes rādiuss — radius of a sphere

   lodes tilpums — volume of a sphere

2. object with spherical form; (sports) ball

   zemes lode, zemeslode — the Earth Globe

   koka, dzelzs lode — wood, iron ball

   grūzt lodi — to push a ball

3. bullet, canon ball

   iešaut kādam lodi krūtis — to shoot a bullet in someone's chest

   lielgabala lode — cannon ball

Declension

declension of lode

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	lode	lodes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	lodi	lodes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	lodes	ložu
dative (datīvs)	lodei	lodēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	lodi	lodēm
locative (lokatīvs)	lodē	lodēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	lode	lodes

Derived terms

• lodīte