different between lude vs elude

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of Quaalude.

Noun

lude (plural ludes)

1. (slang) A pill containing the drug methaqualone.

Verb

lude (third-person singular simple present ludes, present participle luding, simple past and past participle luded)

1. (slang) To get high on quaalude.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

lude (plural ludes)

1. (slang) A Honda Prelude sports car.

Anagrams

• ULed, duel, leud, lued

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lúta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?d?/, [?lu?ð?]

Verb

lude (imperative lud, infinitive at lude, present tense luder, past tense ludede, perfect tense har ludet)

1. lout, stoop

Synonyms

• hælde

Finnish

(index lu)

Etymology

Related to Komi-Zyrian ????? (ludïk) and Estonian lutikas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lude?/, [?lude?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ude
• Syllabification: lu?de

Noun

lude

1. a bedbug
2. a bug (an insect of the order Hemiptera)

Declension

Synonyms

• (bedbug): lutikka, seinälude

Compounds

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

lude

1. third-person singular present indicative of ludere

Latin

Verb

l?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of l?d?

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From luut +? -e.

Adverb

lude

1. loudly

Descendants

• Dutch: luid

Further reading

• “lude (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lude (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hl?d (“noise, sound, tumult, disturbance, dissension”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?dij? (“sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lewe- (“to hear”). Influenced by Old Norse hljóð (from Proto-Germanic *hleuþ?).

Alternative forms

• loude

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?d(?)/, /?liu?d(?)/

Noun

lude (plural luden)

1. Sound, noise, clamor

   Þa hunten wenden æfter mid muchelen heora lude. — Layamon's Brut

   Þa luden heo iherden of þan Rom-leoden. — Layamon's Brut

Descendants

• English: loude (obsolete)
• Scots: lood, luid

References

• “l?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-01.

Etymology 2

From Old English hl?de.

Adverb

lude

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of loude (“loudly”)

Spanish

Verb

lude

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ludir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ludir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ludir.

English

Etymology

From Latin ?l?d? (“evade, elude”), from ? (“out of”), short form of ex, + l?d? (“play; trick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu?d/

Verb

elude (third-person singular simple present eludes, present participle eluding, simple past and past participle eluded)

1. (transitive) to evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 26.

     Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

2. (transitive) to shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip
3. (transitive) to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to
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Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Deuel

Estonian

Noun

elude

1. genitive plural of elu

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

elude

1. third-person singular present indicative of eludere

Anagrams

• edule

Latin

Verb

?l?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?l?d?

Portuguese

Verb

elude

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of eludir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of eludir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?lude/, [e?lu.ð?e]

Verb

elude

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of eludir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of eludir.