Lade

• As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”).
• As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig.
• Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”).
• As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).

Lade

1. A surname.
2. A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).

Lade

1. An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, dale, deal, lead

From Middle High German laden, lade (“board; plank; shutter; shop”), from Old High German *lado, from Proto-Germanic *laþô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑd̥ə/
• Homophone: lade

Lade m (plural Läde, diminutive Lädeli)

1. store, shop

   Synonym: Iichaufslade

   Gömmer no in Lade go poschte?

   Should we go shopping in the store?

From Middle High German lade, Old High German *lada (“receptacle, chest”), ultimately from the root of laden (“to load”). Cognate with Middle English laþe, Old Norse hlaþa (“barn, storehouse”), English lathe.^[1]

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• Rhymes: -aːdə

Lade f (genitive Lade, plural Laden)

1. drawer

   Synonym: Schublade

2. (dated, except in Bundeslade) chest (large box with a hinged lid)

   Synonym: Truhe

• Kinnlade
• Küchentischlade
• Schreibtischlade

• laden

• “Lade” in Duden online
• “Lade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫaː.deː], [ˈɫa.deː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.d̪e]
• The length of the a is uncertain; Gaffiot marks it as long, while the few other dictionaries that include the term tend to mark it as short.

Lā̆dē f sg (genitive Lā̆dēs); first declension

1. Lade (an ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.135.1:

     Ioniae ora Aegeas et Corseas habet et Icaron, de qua dictum est, Laden, quae prius Late vocabatur, […]

     Off the coast of Ionia are Aegeae and Corseae, and Icarus previously mentioned, Lade, formerly called Late, […]

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• Lādē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 882.
• “Lade”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly