different between lauter vs latter

English

Etymology

From German lauter (“pure, clear”, adjective). Began to become common in English in the 1880s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /la?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /la?t?(?)/

Adjective

lauter (not comparable)

1. (brewing, of mash, only attributive) Clear.
   • 1905, Pure Products, volume 1, page 176:

     The practice in the Munich brewery made it plain that the object of the drawing off of the thick mash is to completely separate the thick mash from the lauter mash.

   • 1992, Eric Warner, German Wheat Beer ?ISBN:

     Since the husks and coarse grits are essential for distancing grist particles from one another in the lauter mash, their diminished presence in wheat beer worts will impede the lautering process.

   • 2003, Gregory J. Noonan, New Brewing Lager Beer: The Most Comprehensive Book ?ISBN:

     The thin lauter mash is quickly transferred to the tun, given a last thorough stirring, and allowed to settle.

Verb

lauter (third-person singular simple present lauters, present participle lautering, simple past and past participle lautered)

1. (brewing, transitive) To subject to lautering.

References

Anagrams

• Tulare, at-rule, uretal, uteral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la??t?/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German l?ter, from Old High German hl?ttar, from Proto-Germanic *hl?traz. Compare Dutch louter (German in form), Gothic ???????????????????????? (hl?trs).

Adjective

lauter (comparative lauterer or lautrer, superlative am lautersten)

1. (formal) sincere; honorable; of integrity; correct

2. (formal, literary, most often of metal) genuine; pure

3. (colloquial, uninflected, not comparable) a lot of; a bunch of; much; many; several

Declension

Synonyms

• (sincere): aufrichtig; ehrenhaft
• (genuine): echt
• (a lot): eine Menge; etliche; einige; viel; alle möglichen

Derived terms

• Lauterkeit
• läutern
• unlauter

Adverb

lauter

1. (formal) in a sincere, honorable, correct manner; with integrity

2. (colloquial) just; only; exclusively; often best translated with all

Usage notes

• It is somewhat arbitrary to separate the sense “a lot, a bunch” (see the adjective) from the sense “exclusively, only” (adverb). Both often overlap and are not explicitly distinct in their construction. The distinction uninflected adjective versus adverb has been chosen here for simplicity, that is because the German synonyms and English translations tend to be of the respective parts of speech. — It may be well possible to analyse both senses as either adjectives or adverbs.

Synonyms

• ausschließlich
• lediglich
• nur
• alles

Etymology 2

Adjective

lauter

1. comparative degree of laut

Adjective

lauter

1. inflection of laut:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Further reading

• “lauter” in Duden online
• “lauter” in Duden online

English

Etymology

From Old English lætra, comparative form of læt (“late”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?t'?(r), IPA^(key): /?læt.?(?)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?læt?.??/, [?læ?.?]
• Homophone: ladder (in accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -æt?(r)

Adjective

latter (not comparable)

1. Relating to or being the second of two items.
   • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, "For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival.", National Geographic (March 2017)[1]

     On sale next to dried fish and chicken feet were rats and bats (the latter's wings in a pile like leather scraps, also for sale), plus cut-up pigs and monkeys, their faces intact.

   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

     the difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior

2. Near (or nearer) to the end.
3. In the past, but close (or closer) to the present time.
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

     Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania [...]?

Antonyms

• aforesaid
• aforementioned
• former

Derived terms

• lattermost

Related terms

• latter-day
• latterly
• lattermath
• last, the superlative form of "latter"

Translations

Anagrams

• Tatler, rattle

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hlátr, from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), cognate with Norwegian lått, English laughter and German Gelächter. Derived from the verb *hlahjan? (“to laugh”), cf. Danish le, English laugh, German lachen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lad??]

Noun

latter c (singular definite latteren, not used in plural form)

1. laughter

Inflection

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

latter

1. (Jersey) to beat, spank, cane

Synonyms

• (to cane): codrer, donner la tchêne, vrédîndgi, vrier

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hlátr

Noun

latter m (definite singular latteren) (uncountable)

1. laughter
2. laugh

Synonyms

• lått (Nynorsk also)

Derived terms

References

• “latter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.