larder

Contents

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

larder (plural larders)

1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.
2. 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.

Translations

cool room used as food storage

• Burmese: ကြောင်အိမ် (my) (kraung-im)
• Catalan: rebost (ca) m
• Estonian: sahver
• Finnish: ruokakomero (fi)
• French: garde-manger (fr) m, cellier (fr) m
• German: Kühlraum (de) m, Speisekammer (de) f
• Hungarian: spájz (hu), éléskamra (hu)
• Maori: pātaka (mi), kōpapa
• Norwegian: spiskammer n
• Polish: spiżarnia (pl) f

• Portuguese: despensa (pt) f
• Romanian: cămară (ro) f
• Russian: кладова́я (ru) f (kladovája), кладо́вка (ru) f (kladóvka)
• Serbo-Croatian: остава f (ostava)
• Spanish: despensa (es) f, alacena (es)
• Swedish: skafferi (sv) n
• Volapük: viktualacem (vo)
• Westrobothnian: matrå n

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French

Verb

larder

1. to lard; to smear food with lard
2. to stab; to pierce

Conjugation

Conjugation of larder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

present participle		lardant /laʁ.dɑ̃/
past participle		lardé /laʁ.de/
infinitive
simple		larder
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		lardant /laʁ.dɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• lard

Further reading

• “larder” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).