English

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.
4. (by extension) A rich source of supply.

Translations

Related terms

• lodestar
• loadstone
• mother lode

Anagrams

• dole, leod, olde, OLED

Italian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

lode f ‎(plural lodi)

1. praise

Related terms

• lodevole
• lodare

Anagrams

• Delo, ledo

Latvian

Lode (1, 2)

Lodes (3)

Etymology 1

A borrowing 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]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lūōdɛ]

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

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.^[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 (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7
2. ↑ Dzintra Hirša, Lībieši un lībiešu izcelsmes vietvārdi Latvijā in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, page 213