lade

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lade"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: laid

Etymology 1

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”).

Verb

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.

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.

Related terms

• bill of lading
• laden
• lading
• larboard

Translations

To fill or load

• Azerbaijani: yükləmək (az)
• Bulgarian: товаря (bg) (tovarja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裝載／装载 (zh) (zhuāngzài), 裝貨／装货 (zh) (zhuānghuò)

• Dutch: laden (nl)
• Finnish: lastata (fi)
• French: charger (fr)
• German: beladen (de)
• Russian: грузить (ru) (gruzitʹ), нагружать (ru) (nagružatʹ)

To weigh down, oppress, or burden

• Bulgarian: натоварвам (bg) (natovarvam)
• Finnish: painaa (fi)
• German: belasten (de), beladen (de), aufbürden (de)

To use a ladle or dipper to remove something

• Bulgarian: изгребвам (bg) (izgrebvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舀出

• German: schöpfen (de)

Noun

lade (plural lades)

1. (Scotland) A load.

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. (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.

References

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

• “lade” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. (lade_n_3)

Anagrams

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

Alemannic German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑd̥ə/

Verb

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

1. to load

Derived terms

Derived terms

• abelade
• ablade
• belade
• entlade
• iilade
• Ladeflächi
• Ladeguet
• Ladekapazitäät
• noolade
• überlade
• umlade
• uuflade
• uuslade
• verlade
• volllade
• zuelade

Cimbrian

Noun

lade f

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

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlæːðə]
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

lade c (singular definite laden, plural indefinite lader)

1. (agriculture) barn (building)

Inflection

Declension of lade

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lade	laden	lader	laderne
genitive	lades	ladens	laders	ladernes

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

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, seem, appear

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

Conjugation

Inflection of lade

	present	past
simple	lader	lod
perfect	har ladet or ladt	havde ladet or ladt
passive	lades	—
participle	ladende	ladet or ladt
imperative	lad	—
infinitive	lade	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	laden	—

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlæːðə]
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Verb

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).

Usage notes

In relation to guns, the past participle is ladt.

Conjugation

Inflection of lade

	present	past
simple	lader	ladede
perfect	har ladet	havde ladet
passive	lades	ladedes
participle	ladende	ladet
imperative	lad	—
infinitive	lade	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	laden	—

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlæːðə]

Adjective

lade

1. definite singular of lad
2. plural of lad

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: la‧de

Etymology 1

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of la

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lade

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

Anagrams

• adel, dale

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːdə/

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• Rhymes: -aːdə

Verb

lade

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

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

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

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• la

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)

Related terms

• lader (noun)

References

• “lade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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

Verb

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. (transitive, intransitive) to load, charge

   Synonym: laste

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hlaði m, hlaða f.

Noun

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

1. a barn

Related terms

• løe

References

• “lade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

• la

Pronunciation

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

Verb

lade

1. past indicative of lägga

Anagrams

• Edla, adel, dela, leda