lude

Shortened from Quaalude.

lude (plural ludes)

1. A pill containing the drug methaqualone

Shortening.

lude (plural ludes)

1. (slang) A Honda Prelude sports car.

• ULed, duel, leud, lued

From Old Norse lúta.

• IPA^(key): /luːdə/, [ˈluːðə]

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

1. lout, stoop

• hælde

• IPA^(key): /ˈlude(ʔ)/
• Hyphenation: lu‧de
• Rhymes: -e

lude

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

• (bedbug): lutikka

• vesilude

lude

1. third-person singular present indicative of ludere

lūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lūdō

From luut +‎ -e.

lude

1. loudly

• Dutch: luid

• “lude (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lude (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English hlȳd (“noise, sound, tumult, disturbance, dissension”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūdijō (“sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewe- (“to hear”). Influenced by Old Norse hljóð (from Proto-Germanic *hleuþą).

• loude

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːd(ə)/, /ˈliu̯d(ə)/

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

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

• “lūde (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-01.

From Old English hlūde.

lude

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

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.