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/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • (Australia) IPA(key): /ləʉd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • 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], New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 September 2026:
      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.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Irish: lód

Translations

Anagrams

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

Noun

lode f (plural lodi)

  1. praise
    Synonym: elogio
    senza infamia e senza lode
    without infamy and without praise

Further reading

  • “lode”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

lode f pl

  1. plural of loda

Anagrams

Latvian

Lode (1, 2)
Lodes (3)

Etymology 1

A Germanic borrowing, though the source is unclear:

Both sources are from Proto-West Germanic *laud. Distantly related to Latvian plūst (“to stream, to flow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lūōdɛ]
  • Audio:(file)

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)
singular plural
nominative lode lodes
genitive lodes ložu
dative lodei lodēm
accusative lodi lodes
instrumental lodi lodēm
locative lodē lodēs
vocative lode lodes
Derived terms

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.[2]

Noun

lode f (5th declension)

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

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “lode”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
  2. ^ Dzintra Hirša, Lībieši un lībiešu izcelsmes vietvārdi Latvijā in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, page 213

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from Old Saxon liodan, from Proto-West Germanic *leudan (“to sprout”).

Noun

lōde f

  1. a one-year shoot, sprout, or twig

Descendants

References

  • August Lübben and Christoph Walther, Mittelniederdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Norden/Leipzig: Diedr. Soltau’s Verlag, 1888

Middle High German

Etymology

    Inherited from Old High German lodo, ludo.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈlo.də/

    Noun

    lode m

    1. rough woolen fabric

    Declension

    Declension of lode (weak masculine)
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein dër lode die loden
    genitive eines dës loden dër loden
    dative eime dëm loden dën loden
    accusative einen dën loden die loden

    Descendants

    References

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Adjective

    lode

    1. neuter singular of loden

    Slovak

    Noun

    lode

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