lade

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: laid

From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).

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

1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

     Men from the fartheſt Equinoctiall line,
     Haue ſwarm’d in troopes into the Eaſterne India:
     Lading their ſhippe with golde and precious ſtones:
     And made their ſpoiles from all our prouinces.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 42:26:

     And they laded their asses with the corn.

   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23:

     Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats of mail, swords, and gleaming war harness.

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

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     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.

• bill of lading
• laden
• lading
• larboard

lade (plural lades)

1. (Scotland) A load.

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

lade (plural lades)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
   • 1873, Henry Kingsley, Oakshott Castle:

     Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story.

2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
3. (Scotland) (mill lade) A mill race.
   • 1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:

     It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.

4. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

• “lade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lade”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC. (lade_n_3)

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

From Middle High German laden, from Old High German hladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑd̥ə/

lade (third-person singular simple present ladet, past participle glade, auxiliary haa)

1. to load

lade f

1. cupboard, cabinet

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

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþǭ, derived from *hlaþaną (“to load”) (see below).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlæːðə]
• Rhymes: -aːdə

lade c (singular definite laden, plural indefinite lader)

1. (agriculture) barn (building)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈla], (always in the meanings "pretend, seem") IPA^(key): [ˈlæːðə]

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, seem, appear

   in the expressions lade som om (“to pretend”) and lade til (“to seem”)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlæːðə]
• Rhymes: -aːdə

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

1. load
2. charge
3. let go

   in the expressions lade vandet (“to urinate”) and lade livet (“to die”) (etymologically, they belong to the former verb, but they have the pronunciation and morphology of this verb).

In relation to guns, the past participle is ladt.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlæːðə]

lade

1. definite singular of lad
2. plural of lad

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: la‧de

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

1. alternative form of la

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lade

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of laden

• adel, dale

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːdə/

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• Rhymes: -aːdə

lade

1. inflection of laden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō, related to the verb *hlaþaną.

lāde f

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

• Dutch: lade, la
• Limburgish: laaj

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• lei (Föhr-Amrum)
• lii (Sylt)

From Old Frisian lidzia, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

lade

1. (Mooring) to lie, be in a horizontal position

• la

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

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)

• lader (noun)

• “lade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• la (short form)
• lada (long form with a- or split infinitives)

lade (present tense ladar or lader, past tense lada or ladde, supine lada or ladd or ladt, past participle lada or ladd, present participle ladande, imperative lad)

1. (ambitransitive) to load, charge

   Synonym: laste

From Old Norse hlaði m, hlaða f.

lade m (definite singular laden, indefinite plural ladar, definite plural ladane)

1. a barn

• løe

• “lade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Dale, Lade, adel, adle, alde, dale, dela, edla, elda, lade, leda

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.de/

lāde

1. inflection of lād:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular

• la

• IPA^(key): /lɑː/
• IPA^(key): (rare) /¹lɑːdɛ/, [ˈlɑː˥˧dɛ˩]

lade

1. past indicative of lägga

• Edla, adel, dela, leda