loden

See also: Loden

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Loden.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊdən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊdən

Noun

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.

   loden:  

Adjective

loden (comparative more loden, superlative most loden)

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

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Eldon, olden, onled

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (now dialectal, mainly Hollandic) looien

Etymology

From lood +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.də(n)/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oːdən

Adjective

loden (not comparable)

1. leaden, made of lead

Declension

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

• zo link als een looien deur

 

Related terms

• lood

 

Anagrams

• dolen

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

loden m (plural lodens)

1. loden (material)

Further reading

• “loden”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lòden (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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

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

Adjective

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

1. hairy, shaggy, woolly

References

• “loden” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

loden m (plural lódenes)

1. loden

Swedish

Noun

loden

1. definite plural of lod