lode

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊd/

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• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophones: load, lowed

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.

• lodestar
• loadstone
• mother lode

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

lode m

1. cloth, fabric

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

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

lode f (plural lodi)

1. praise

   Synonym: elogio

• lodevole (adjective)
• lodare (verb)

• Delo, ledo

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.[1]

• IPA^(key): [lūōdɛ]

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

• lodīte

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]

lode f (5th declension)

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

   lodes vējš ― northwestern wind

lode

1. neuter singular of loden