larder

larder

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.də/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

larder (plural larders)

1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]:

     He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.

2. A food supply.
   • 1990, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Food Hoarding in Animals (page 243)

     Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.

Translations

cool room used as food storage

Bulgarian: килер m (kiler) Burmese: ကြောင်အိမ် (my) (kraung-im) Catalan: rebost (ca) m Dutch: provisiekamer (nl) f Estonian: sahver Finnish: ruokakomero (fi) French: garde-manger (fr) m, cellier (fr) m Galician: despensa (gl) f, fresqueira f German: Kühlraum (de) m, Speisekammer (de) f Hungarian: spájz (hu), éléskamra (hu) Latin: lardarium n Maori: pātaka (mi), kōpapa Norwegian: spiskammer n Plautdietsch: Äteskoma f Polish: spiżarnia (pl) f Portuguese: despensa (pt) f Romanian: cămară (ro) f Russian: кладова́я (ru) f (kladovája), кладо́вка (ru) f (kladóvka) Serbo-Croatian: остава f (ostava) Spanish: despensa (es) f, alacena (es) Swedish: skafferi (sv) n Turkish: kiler (tr) Ukrainian: комора (uk) (komora) Volapük: viktualacem (vo) Westrobothnian: matrå n

Anagrams

• Ardler, radler

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Pronunciation

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Verb

larder

1. to lard; to smear food with lard
2. to stab; to pierce

Conjugation

Conjugation of larder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	larder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lardant /laʁ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lardé /laʁ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	larde /laʁd/	lardes /laʁd/	larde /laʁd/	lardons /laʁ.dɔ̃/	lardez /laʁ.de/	lardent /laʁd/
	imperfect	lardais /laʁ.dɛ/	lardais /laʁ.dɛ/	lardait /laʁ.dɛ/	lardions /laʁ.djɔ̃/	lardiez /laʁ.dje/	lardaient /laʁ.dɛ/
	past historic2	lardai /laʁ.de/	lardas /laʁ.da/	larda /laʁ.da/	lardâmes /laʁ.dam/	lardâtes /laʁ.dat/	lardèrent /laʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	larderai /laʁ.də.ʁe/	larderas /laʁ.də.ʁa/	lardera /laʁ.də.ʁa/	larderons /laʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	larderez /laʁ.də.ʁe/	larderont /laʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	larderais /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/	larderais /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/	larderait /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/	larderions /laʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	larderiez /laʁ.də.ʁje/	larderaient /laʁ.də.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	larde /laʁd/	lardes /laʁd/	larde /laʁd/	lardions /laʁ.djɔ̃/	lardiez /laʁ.dje/	lardent /laʁd/
	imperfect2	lardasse /laʁ.das/	lardasses /laʁ.das/	lardât /laʁ.da/	lardassions /laʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	lardassiez /laʁ.da.sje/	lardassent /laʁ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	larde /laʁd/	—	lardons /laʁ.dɔ̃/	lardez /laʁ.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• lard

Further reading

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

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• laardere, lardere, lardre, lardure, lardyr, lardyre

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman larder and continental Old French lardier, both from Latin lardārium; equivalent to lard +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /larˈdeːr/, /ˈlardər/

Noun

larder

1. A stock of meat (originally cured pork)
2. The place where such a stock is made and stored.
3. (figuratively) Bloodshed, killing.

Descendants

• English: larder
• Middle Scots: lairder

References

• “lā̆rder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.