different between fount vs lode

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of fountain

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nt

Noun

fount (plural founts)

1. Something from which water flows.
2. A device from which poultry may drink.
3. (figuratively) That from which something flows or proceeds; a source.

   He is a real fount of knowledge!

Synonyms

• font
• fountain
• (device from which animals drink): waterer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Alternative forms

• font

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nt/
• Homophone: font

Noun

fount (plural founts)

1. (typography, Britain, dated) A typographic font.

References

• “fount” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ?ISBN.

Anagrams

• FUTON, futon

Occitan

Noun

fount f (plural founts)

1. spring, fountain

English

Etymology

Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English l?d (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo?d/
• Rhymes: -??d
• Homophones: load, lowed

Noun

lode (plural lodes)

1. (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
2. (dialectal) A watercourse.
3. (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
   • 1967, Henry C. Berg, Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14:

     The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.

4. (by extension) A rich source of supply.

Related terms

• lodestar
• loadstone
• mother lode

Translations

Anagrams

• DOLE, Delo, Deol, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, leod, olde

Cimbrian

Noun

lode m

1. cloth, fabric

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Italian

Etymology

From Latin laudem, accusative of laus, from the Proto-Indo-European root *l?wt-, *l?wd?- (“song, sound”), from *l?w- (“to sound, resound, sing out”).

Noun

lode f (plural lodi)

1. praise

   Synonym: elogio

Related terms

• lodevole (adjective)
• lodare (verb)

Anagrams

• Delo, ledo

Latvian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German lode (“piece of lead (used as weight), plummet”), or perhaps from an East Frisian word (compare Saterland Frisian Lood) or Middle Dutch lood, which all had the same meaning (compare German Lot (“plummet, solder”)), itself a borrowing from Celtic (originally meaning “easily melting metal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”), whence also Latvian pl?st (“to stream, to flow”). This borrowing is first attested in 17th-century dictionaries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l??d?]

Noun

lode f (5th declension)

1. (mathematics) sphere

2. object with spherical form; (sports) ball

3. bullet, canon ball

Declension

Derived terms

• lod?te

Etymology 2

On the southernmost Livonian toponyms Dzintra Hirša mentions a lake Lúodis in Zarasai District Municipality, Lithuania (as well as Luõdes ezers and Luodezers in Latvia) connecting these with Livonian l?od (“northwest”) and mentioning Latvian lodes v?jš (“northwestern wind”) as being from the same source.

Noun

lode f (5th declension)

1. (dialectal, usually attributively in the expression lodes v?jš) northwest

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

lode

1. neuter singular of loden

Slovak

Noun

lode

1. inflection of lo?:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural