Lade

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lade"

English

Etymology 1

• As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”).
• As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig.
• Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”).
• As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).

Proper noun

Lade

1. A surname.
2. A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).

Proper noun

Lade

1. An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.

Anagrams

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

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German laden, lade (“board; plank; shutter; shop”), from Old High German *lado, from Proto-Germanic *laþô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑd̥ə/
• Homophone: lade

Noun

Lade m (plural Läde, diminutive Lädeli)

1. store, shop

   Synonym: Iichaufslade

   Gömmer no in Lade go poschte?

   Should we go shopping in the store?

German

Etymology

From Middle High German lade, Old High German *lada (“receptacle, chest”), ultimately from the root of laden (“to load”). Cognate with Middle English laþe, Old Norse hlaþa (“barn, storehouse”), English lathe.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

Lade f (genitive Lade, plural Laden)

1. drawer

   Synonym: Schublade

2. (dated, except in Bundeslade) chest (large box with a hinged lid)

   Synonym: Truhe

Declension

Declension of Lade [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Lade	die	Laden
genitive	einer	der	Lade	der	Laden
dative	einer	der	Lade	den	Laden
accusative	eine	die	Lade	die	Laden

Derived terms

• Kinnlade
• Küchentischlade
• Schreibtischlade

Related terms

• laden

Further reading

• “Lade” in Duden online
• “Lade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.deː/, [ˈɫ̪äːd̪eː] or IPA^(key): /ˈla.deː/, [ˈɫ̪äd̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.de/, [ˈläːd̪e]
• The length of the a is uncertain; Gaffiot marks it as long, while the few other dictionaries that include the term tend to mark it as short.

Proper noun

Lā̆dē f sg (genitive Lā̆dēs); first declension

1. Lade (an ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.135.1:

     Ioniae ora Aegeas et Corseas habet et Icaron, de qua dictum est, Laden, quae prius Late vocabatur, […]

     Off the coast of Ionia are Aegeae and Corseae, and Icarus previously mentioned, Lade, formerly called Late, […]

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Lā̆dē
genitive	Lā̆dēs
dative	Lā̆dae
accusative	Lā̆dem Lā̆den
ablative	Lā̆dē
vocative	Lā̆dē
locative	Lā̆dae

References

• Lādē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 882.
• “Lade”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly