lode

See also: lodē, lodě, and lòde

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/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophones: load, lowed

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.
   • 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.

4. (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^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• lodestar
• loadstone
• mother lode

Translations

vein of metallic ore

• Czech: rudná žíla f
• Finnish: suoni (fi), malmisuoni
• French: filon (fr) m
• Georgian: ძარღვი (ʒarɣvi)
• German: Ader (de) f
• Greek: φλέβα (el) f (fléva)
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• Irish: síog f
• Italian: filone (it) m
• Japanese: 鉱脈 (ja) (kōmyaku)
• Russian: жи́ла (ru) f (žíla)
• Spanish: filón (es), veta (es)

rich source of supply

• Finnish: suoni (fi)
• German: Goldgrube f
• Greek: πηγή (el) f (pigí)
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• Spanish: montón (es) m

Anagrams

• DOLE, Deol, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, leod, olde

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Cimbrian

Noun

lode m

1. cloth, fabric

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin laudem, accusative of laus, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lēwt-, *lēwdʰ- (“song, sound”), from *lēw- (“to sound, resound, sing out”).

Noun

lode f (plural lodi)

1. praise

   Synonym: elogio

   senza infamia e senza lode

   without infamy and without praise

Related terms

• lodevole (adjective)
• lodare (verb)

Anagrams

• Delo, ledo

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Latvian

Lode (1, 2)

Lodes (3)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German lode (“piece of lead (used as weight), plummet”), or perhaps from an East Frisian word (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Saterland Frisian Lood) or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”), whence also Latvian plūst (“to stream, to flow”). This borrowing is first attested in 17th-century dictionaries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lūōdɛ]

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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

   grūst lodi ― to push a ball

3. bullet, canon ball

   iešaut kādam lodi krūtīs ― to shoot a bullet in someone's chest

   lielgabala lode ― cannon ball

Declension

Declension of lode (5th declension)

	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

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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Livonian lūod (“northwest”) and mentioning Latvian lodes vējš (“northwestern wind”) as being from the same source.

Noun

lode f (5th declension)

1. (dialectal, usually attributively in the expression lodes vējš) northwest

   lodes vējš ― northwestern wind

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

lode

1. neuter singular of loden

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Slovak

Noun

lode

1. inflection of loď:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural