different between lodestar vs lode

English

Etymology

From Middle English lode (“journey, course”) +? star, where lode is an archaic noun from the verb lithe (“to go, journey”), related to lead. Other Middle English spellings include: 14th century loode sterre, lood-sterre, lade-sterne; and 15th century lode sterre. Cognate with Old Norse leiðarstjarna, Dutch leidster, German Leitstern, Danish ledestjerne, Swedish ledstjärna.

Noun

lodestar (plural lodestars)

1. A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.
2. (figuratively) A guiding tenet or principle.
3. (law) A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.

Alternative forms

• lode starre (16th century)
• loadstar

Synonyms

• cynosure
• guiding star

Translations

See also

• lodestone

Anagrams

• delators, leotards

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