loden

See also: Loden

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Loden.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈləʊdən/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊdən

Noun

loden (plural lodens)

  1. A thick waterproof cloth used for garments.
    • 2011 [2001], Anthea Bell, transl., Austerlitz, Penguin, translation of original by W. G. Sebald, page 314:
      The first thing that caught my eye on this excursion was the number of grey, brown and green loden coats and hats, and how well and sensibly everyone was dressed in general, how remarkably solid were the shoes of the pedestrians of Nuremberg.
  2. A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
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Adjective

loden (comparative more loden, superlative most loden)

  1. Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • (now dialectal, mainly Hollandic) looien

Etymology

From lood +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloː.də(n)/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -oːdən

Adjective

loden (not comparable)

  1. leaden, made of lead

Declension

Declension of loden
uninflected loden
inflected loden
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial loden
indefinite m./f. sing. loden
n. sing. loden
plural loden
definite loden
partitive lodens

Derived terms

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

loden m (plural lodens)

  1. loden (material)

Further reading

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • lòden (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Old Norse loðinn, from the Proto-Germanic past participle of *leudaną (to sprout, spring up, grow). Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁lewdʰ- (to grow).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²loːən/, [²lɞ̞ː.ən], /²lodːən/, [²lɞ̞d.n̩], [²lɞ̞d.den]

Adjective

loden (neuter lode or lodent, definite singular and plural lodne, comparative lodnare, indefinite superlative lodnast, definite superlative lodnaste)

  1. hairy, shaggy, woolly

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloden/ [ˈlo.ð̞ẽn]
  • Rhymes: -oden
  • Syllabification: lo‧den

Noun

loden m (plural lódenes)

  1. loden

Swedish

Noun

loden

  1. definite plural of lod