loden

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Loden.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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loden (plural lodens)

  1. A thick waterproof cloth used for garments.
    • 2011 [2001], Anthea Bell, transl., Austerlitz, Penguin, translation of original by W. G. Sebald, page 314:
      The first thing that caught my eye on this excursion was the number of grey, brown and green loden coats and hats, and how well and sensibly everyone was dressed in general, how remarkably solid were the shoes of the pedestrians of Nuremberg.
  2. A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
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Adjective

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loden (comparative more loden, superlative most loden)

  1. Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Alternative forms

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  • (now dialectal, mainly Hollandic) looien

Etymology

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From lood +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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loden (not comparable)

  1. leaden, made of lead

Declension

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Declension of loden
uninflected loden
inflected loden
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial loden
indefinite m./f. sing. loden
n. sing. loden
plural loden
definite loden
partitive lodens

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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loden m (plural lodens)

  1. loden (material)

Further reading

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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  • lòden (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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From Old Norse loðinn, from the Proto-Germanic past participle of *leudaną (to sprout, spring up, grow). Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁lewdʰ- (to grow).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²loːən/, [²lɞ̞ː.ən], /²lodːən/, [²lɞ̞d.n̩], [²lɞ̞d.den]

Adjective

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loden (neuter lode or lodent, definite singular and plural lodne, comparative lodnare, indefinite superlative lodnast, definite superlative lodnaste)

  1. hairy, shaggy, woolly

References

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Spanish

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Noun

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loden m (plural lódenes)

  1. loden

Swedish

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Noun

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loden

  1. definite plural of lod