larder
English edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɑː.də/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Noun edit
larder (plural larders)
- A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]:
- He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]:
- A food supply.
- 1990, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Food Hoarding in Animals, page 243:
- Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
cool room used as food storage
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Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From lard.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
larder
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of larder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | larder | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | lardant /laʁ.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | lardé /laʁ.de/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | larde /laʁd/ |
lardes /laʁd/ |
larde /laʁd/ |
lardons /laʁ.dɔ̃/ |
lardez /laʁ.de/ |
lardent /laʁd/ |
imperfect | lardais /laʁ.dɛ/ |
lardais /laʁ.dɛ/ |
lardait /laʁ.dɛ/ |
lardions /laʁ.djɔ̃/ |
lardiez /laʁ.dje/ |
lardaient /laʁ.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | lardai /laʁ.de/ |
lardas /laʁ.da/ |
larda /laʁ.da/ |
lardâmes /laʁ.dam/ |
lardâtes /laʁ.dat/ |
lardèrent /laʁ.dɛʁ/ | |
future | larderai /laʁ.də.ʁe/ |
larderas /laʁ.də.ʁa/ |
lardera /laʁ.də.ʁa/ |
larderons /laʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ |
larderez /laʁ.də.ʁe/ |
larderont /laʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | larderais /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
larderais /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
larderait /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
larderions /laʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
larderiez /laʁ.də.ʁje/ |
larderaient /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | larde /laʁd/ |
lardes /laʁd/ |
larde /laʁd/ |
lardions /laʁ.djɔ̃/ |
lardiez /laʁ.dje/ |
lardent /laʁd/ |
imperfect2 | lardasse /laʁ.das/ |
lardasses /laʁ.das/ |
lardât /laʁ.da/ |
lardassions /laʁ.da.sjɔ̃/ |
lardassiez /laʁ.da.sje/ |
lardassent /laʁ.das/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | larde /laʁd/ |
— | lardons /laʁ.dɔ̃/ |
lardez /laʁ.de/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “larder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman larder and continental Old French lardier, both from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
larder
- A stock of meat (originally cured pork)
- The place where such a stock is made and stored.
- (figuratively) Bloodshed, killing.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “lā̆rder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.