lode

See also: Lode, lodē, lodě, lòde, and løde

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/

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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^[2]:

     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

• Bulgarian: жила (bg) f (žila), залеж m (zalež)
• Czech: rudná žíla f
• Danish: åre (da) c
• Finnish: suoni (fi), malmisuoni
• French: filon (fr) m
• Georgian: ძარღვი (ʒarɣvi)
• German: Ader (de) f
• Greek: φλέβα (el) f (fléva)
• Hebrew: עוֹרֵק (he) m (orék)
• Hungarian: telér (hu), ércér
• Irish: síog f
• Italian: filone (it) m
• Japanese: 鉱脈 (ja) (kōmyaku)
• Macedonian: жи́ла f (žíla)
• Polish: żyła (pl) f
• Russian: жи́ла (ru) f (žíla)
• Spanish: filón (es), veta (es)
• Tibetan: གཏེར་ཁ (gter kha)

rich source of supply

• Danish: guldgrube c
• Finnish: suoni (fi)
• German: Goldgrube (de) f
• Greek: πηγή (el) f (pigí)
• Spanish: montón (es) m
• Tibetan: གཏེར་ཁ (gter kha)

Anagrams

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

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɔde
• Hyphenation: lò‧de

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• loda, lauda (obsolete)

Noun

lode f (plural lodi)

1. praise

   Synonym: elogio

   senza infamia e senza lode

   without infamy and without praise

Related terms

• lodare
• lodevole

 

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

1. plural of loda

Anagrams

• Delo, ledo

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 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.

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, cannonball

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

   lielgabala lode ― cannonball

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 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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

lode

1. neuter singular of loden

Slovak

Noun

lode

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