different between lathe vs laithe
lathe
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, US) enPR: l?th IPA(key): /le?ð/
- (US)
- Rhymes: -e?ð
Etymology 1
From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-Germanic *laþ?n? (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
Alternative forms
- laith
Verb
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.
Etymology 2
From Middle English *lath, from Old English l?þ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”).
Alternative forms
- lath
Noun
lathe (plural lathes)
- (obsolete) An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
Etymology 3
From Middle English lath (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.
Noun
lathe (plural lathes)
- A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
- The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
- (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
Derived terms
- engine lathe
Translations
Verb
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
- To shape with a lathe.
- (computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
Translations
See also
- lath
- turner
Anagrams
- Leath, athel, ethal, hatel
Middle English
Etymology
From Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”). More at English, Etymology 3, above.
Noun
lathe (plural lathes)
- a barn to house livestock or store grain, etc.; a storehouse
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laithe
English
Noun
laithe (plural laithes)
- Alternative form of lathe (“A granary; a barn”)
Anagrams
- Leitha, aileth, halite, thelia
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *latyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh?t- (“warm part of the year”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *l?to n (“summer, year”).
Noun
laithe n
- day, daytime, daylight
- Synonym: lá
Inflection
Mutation
References
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “29474”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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