different between lowth vs loath

English

Etymology

From low +? -th.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???

Noun

lowth (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) Lowness.
   • 1843, Thomas Becon, John Ayre, The early works of Thomas Becon:

     "For I am sure that neither death nor life, neither angel nor rule, neither power, neither things present, neither things to come, neither height nor lowth, nor any other creature, shall lie able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

2. (Britain dialectal) (in the plural) Lowlands.

Anagrams

• thowl

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English l?th (“displeasing, hateful, unpleasant; horrible, loathsome; evil, malignant; disinclined, unwilling; difficult, troublesome; displeased, dissatisfied”), from Old English l?ð, l?þ (“evil; loathsome”), or Old Norse leið, leiðr (“uncomfortable; tired”) from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“loath; disgusting, loathsome; averse, reluctant, unwilling; hostile; sad, sorry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?leyt- (“to do something abhorrent or hateful”). The word is cognate with Danish led (“disgusting, loathsome; nasty”), Dutch leed (“sad; (Belgium) angry”), French laid (“ugly; morally corrupt”), Icelandic leiður (“annoyed, vexed; sad; (archaic or poetic) annoying, wearisome”), Italian laido (“filthy, foul; obscene”), Old Frisian leed, Old High German leid (Middle High German leit, modern German leid (“uncomfortable”), Leid (“grief, sorrow, woe; affliction, suffering; harm, injury; wrong”)), Old Saxon lêð, l?th (“evil person or thing”), Swedish led (“bored; tired; (archaic) disgusting, loathsome; evil”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo??/
• Rhymes: -???

Adjective

loath (comparative loather, superlative loathest)

1. Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling.
2. (obsolete) Angry, hostile.
3. (obsolete) Loathsome, unpleasant.

Usage notes

• The spelling loath is about four times as common as loth in Britain, and about fifty times as common in the United States.
• The word should not be confused with the related verb loathe.

Alternative forms

• loth (chiefly Britain)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

loath (third-person singular simple present loaths, present participle loathing, simple past and past participle loathed)

1. Obsolete spelling of loathe

References

Anagrams

• Athol, altho, altho', lotah, tolah