lade

See also: Lade, ladé, and läde

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /leɪd/
  • Rhymes: -eɪd
  • Homophone: laid

Etymology 1

From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”).

Verb

lade (third-person singular simple present lades, present participle lading, simple past laded, past participle laden or laded)

  1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
    • Bible, Genesis xlii. 26
      And they laded their asses with the corn.
  2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
    to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
    • Shakespeare
      And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
  4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).

Noun

lade (plural lades)

  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Gibson to this entry?)
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  3. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cimbrian

Noun

lade f (plural [please provide])

  1. cupboard, cabinet

References

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

Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːdə

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlaða.

Noun

lade c (singular definite laden, plural indefinite lader)

  1. (agriculture) barn (building)
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Danish latæ, from Old Norse láta, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense lod, past participle ladet or ladt)

  1. let (to allow)
  2. leave (to transfer responsibility or attention)
  3. have (cause to, by command or request)
  4. have (cause to be)
  5. make (force to do)
  6. pretend
  7. seem, appear

Usage notes

In case of lade vandet (“urinate”), past tense is ladede.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense ladede, past participle ladet)

  1. load
  2. charge

Usage notes

In relation to guns, the past participle is ladt.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaː.də/
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Etymology 1

Noun

lade f (plural laden or lades, diminutive ladetje n)

  1. (dated) Alternative form of la

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

lade

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of laden

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaːdə/
  • Rhymes: -aːdə

Verb

lade

  1. First-person singular present of laden.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of laden.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of laden.
  4. Imperative singular of laden.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō.

Noun

lāde f

  1. box, case
  2. (eastern) plank, beam

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: lade, la
  • Limburgish: laaj

Further reading

  • “lade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, passive lades, simple past lada or ladet or ladde, past participle lada or ladet or ladd, present participle ladende)

  1. (electricity) to charge (e.g. a battery)
  2. to load (a weapon)

References

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑː(dɛ)/

Verb

lade

  1. past tense of lägga.

Anagrams

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