lord

See also: Lord and LORD

English

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Etymology

From Middle English lord and lorde (attested from the 15th century), from earlier (14th century) lourde and other variants which dropped the intervocalic consonant of earlier lowerd, louerd, loverd, laford, and lhoaverd; from Old English hlāford < hlāfweard, a compound of hlāf (“bread”) + weard (“guardian”); see loaf and ward. The term was already being applied broadly prior to the literary development of Old English and was influenced by its common use to translate Latin dominus. Compare Scots laird (“lord”), preserving a separate vowel development (from northern/Scottish Middle English lard, laverd), the Old English compound hlāf-ǣta (“servant”, literally “bread-eater”), and modern English lady, from Old English hlǣfdīġe (“bread-kneader”).[1] The Middle English word laford was borrowed by Icelandic, where it survives as lávarður.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɔːd/
Audio (UK) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /lɔɹd/
Audio (US) (file)
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Homophone: lored (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Homophone: laud (in non-rhotic accents)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Noun

lord (plural lords)

(obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 24:46:
  Bleſſed is that ſeruant, whome his Lord when he commeth, ſhal finde ſo doing.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], line 167:
  Por. ...But now, I was the Lord
  of this faire manſion, maiſter of my ſeruants,
  Queene oer my ſelfe […]
- 1766, William Blackstone, chapter 418, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
  Lords of manors are distinguished from other land-owners with regard to the game.
1. (archaic) The male head of a household, a father or husband.
  - 831, charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts, 445
    Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.
  - 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
    […] thou worthieLord,
    Of that vnworthie wife that greeteth thee
  - c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii], line 131:
    Pet. Katherine, I charge thee, tell theſe head-ſtrong women,
    What dutie they doe owe their Lords and huſbands!
  - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 18:12:
    Therefore Sarah laughed within her ſelfe, ſaying, After I am waxed old, ſhall I haue pleaſure, my lord being old alſo?
  - 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, OCLC 1708336, page 300:
    Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.
2. (archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
  - ante 1300, Cursor Mundi, 601 f.
    Als oure lauerd has heuen in hand
    Sua suld man be lauerd of land.
  - 1480, Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316
    All suche lordes as have gutters betuxte thar houses.
  - ante 1637, Ben Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. i. 36
    A mightie Lord of Swine!
  - 1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
    Turnus […]
    Wrench'd from his feeble hold the shining Sword;
    And plung'd it in the Bosom of its Lord.
  - 1874, J. H. Collins, Principles of Metal Mining (1875), Gloss. 139/2
    Lord, the owner of the land in which a mine is situated is called the ‘lord’.
One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)
- c. 893, Orosius's History, i. i. §13
  Ohthere sæde his hlaforde, Ælfrede cyninge, þæt...
- 1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement, 680/1
  It is a pytuouse case... whan subjectes rebell agaynst their naturall lorde.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
  Man over men He made not Lord.
1. (historical) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
2. A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
  - ante 1420, T. Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum, 442
    Men myghten lordis knowe
    By there arraye, from oþir folke.
  - 1453, Rolls of Parliament, V. 266/2
    If such persone bee of the estate of a Lord, as Duc, Marques, Erle, Viscount or Baron.
  - 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene 1], line 18:
    Princes, and noble Lords:
    What anſwer ſhall I make to this baſe man?
  - 1614, J. Selden, Titles of Honor, 59
    Our English name Lord, whereby we and the Scots stile all such as are of the Greater Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.
  - 1900 July 21, Daily Express:
    The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord.
3. (obsolete, uncommon) A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones
  - 1526, W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection, i. sig. Bviiiv
    Farre excellyng the state of lordes, erles, dukes or kynges.
  - 1826, Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey, II. iii. iii. 26
    The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.
One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
- ante 1300, Cursor Mundi, 782
  O wityng bath god and ill Ȝee suld be lauerds at ȝour will.
- 1398, John Trevisa translating Bartholomew de Glanville's De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495), viii. xvi. 322
  The sonne is the lorde of planetes.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
  Love is Lord of all.
- 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 8:
  The masterful wind was up and out, shouting and chasing, the lord of the morning.
- 1992 November 18, Larry David, Seinfeld, 4.11: "The Contest":
  But are you still master of your domain?
  I am king of the county. You?
  Lord of the manor.
1. A magnate of a trade or profession.
  The Tobacco Lords were a group of Scottish merchants and slave traders who in the 18th century made enormous fortunes by trading in tobacco.
  - 1823, W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399
    Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!
(astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
- c. 1391, Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe, ii. §4:
  The assendent, & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan þat no wykkid planete, as Saturne or Mars, or elles the tail of the dragoun, is in þe hows of the assendent.
(Britain, slang, obsolete) A hunchback.
- 1699, B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew:
  Lord, a very crooked, deformed... Person.
(Britain, Australia, via Cockney rhyming slang, obsolete) Sixpence.
- 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement, 782/1:
  Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.

Synonyms

(master, owner): drighten, possessor, proprietor, sovereign

Derived terms

chief lord
drunk as a lord
feudal lord
House of Lords
laird
landlord
lorddom
lord-fish
lordful
lordhood
lord in gross
lord-in-waiting
lordish
lord it over
lordless
lordlike
lordliness
lordly
Lord Mayor
lord mesne
lordness
lord of the bedchamber
lord of the manor
lord paramount
lord paramount
lordship
lords of creation
Lords Spiritual
Lords Temporal
lord superior
lordy
mesne lord
overlord
slumlord
warlord

Descendants

Belizean Creole: laad
→ Bengali: লাট (laṭ)
- → Hindi: लाट (lāṭ)
→ Faroese: lordur
Gullah: lawd
→ Hungarian: lord
→ Italian: lord
Jamaican Creole: laad
Pijin: lod
→ Portuguese: lorde
→ Russian: ло́рд (lórd)
→ Serbo-Croatian: lȍrd / ло̏рд
→ Spanish: lord
Torres Strait Creole: lod
→ Turkish: lord
→ Yiddish: לאָרד‎ (lord)

Translations

master of a household

Albanian: zot (sq), zonjë (sq)
Afrikaans: heer (af)
Arabic: رَبّ‎ m (rabb)
Basque: jaun
Belarusian: гаспада́р (be) m (haspadár), валада́р m (valadár)
Bulgarian: стопанин (bg) m (stopanin), господар (bg) m (gospodar)
Catalan: castellà (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 領主／领主 (zh), 领主 (zh) (lǐngzhǔ)
Danish: herre (da) c, husbond c, husherre c
Dutch: heer (nl) m, landheer (nl) m
Finnish: isäntä (fi), herra (fi)
French: châtelain (fr)
Galician: casteleiro (gl) m, castelao m, dono m, señor m, coime m, patrón m
Greek: κύριος (el) m (kýrios), πυργοδεσπότης (el) m (pyrgodespótis)
Ancient: δεσπότης m (despótēs), κύριος m (kúrios), ἄναξ m (ánax)
Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 m (frauja)
Hindi: मालिक (hi) m (mālik), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) m (sāhab)
Hungarian: úr (hu)
Icelandic: herra (is) m, húsbóndi (is) m
Ido: kastelestro (io)
Indonesian: tuan (id)
Irish: tiarna (ga) m
Italian: castellano
Khmer: ម្ចាស់ (km) (mchah), ប្ដី (km) (bdey)
Latin: dominus (la) m
Macedonian: сто́пан m (stópan), го́сподар m (góspodar)
Manchu: ᡝᠵᡝᠨ (ejen)
Old English: hlāford m
Persian: کدخدا‎ (fa) (kadxodâ), کدیور‎ (fa) (kadivar)
Polish: gospodarz (pl) m
Portuguese: castelão (pt)
Russian: хозя́ин (ru) m (xozjáin)
Scottish Gaelic: tighearna (gd) m
Spanish: castellano (es)
Swedish: herre (sv) c
Tagalog: poon
Turkish: efendi (tr), reis (tr), baş (tr), erk (tr), bey (tr)
Ukrainian: госпо́дар (uk) m (hospódar), воло́дар (uk) m (volódar), хазя́їн m (xazjájin)
Vandalic: froia m
Vietnamese: chúa (vi)
Yakut: тойон (toyon)
Zazaki: lord, ser (diq), serek, ape m

property owner

Albanian: lekë (sq), zot (sq), zonjë (sq)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܡܪܐ‎ m (mārā)
Jewish Aramaic: מָרָא‎ m (mārā)
Armenian: տեր (hy) (ter)
Breton: aotroù m
Bulgarian: собственик (bg) m (sobstvenik)
Catalan: senyor (ca)
Danish: herre (da) c, godsejer c
Finnish: omistaja (fi), maanomistaja (fi), kartanonherra (fi), isäntä (fi)
Galician: señor m, dono m, amo (gl) m
German: Gebieter (de) m
Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 m (frauja)
Greek: κύριος (el) m (kýrios), αφέντης (el) m (aféntis)
Ancient: κύριος m (kúrios), δεσπότης m (despótēs), ἄναξ m (ánax)
Hindi: लार्ड (hi) m (lārḍ)
Icelandic: herra (is) m
Indonesian: tuan (id)
Italian: signore (it) m
Khmer: ម្ចាស់ (km) (mchah), លោកព្រឹទ្ធាចារ្យ (louk prɨttʰiechaa)
Latin: dominus (la) m
Macedonian: го́сподар m (góspodar)
Old English: hlāford m
Old French: seignor
Persian: ارباب‎ (fa) (arbâb)
Polish: właściciel (pl) m
Portuguese: senhor (pt) m
Russian: господи́н (ru) m (gospodín), власти́тель (ru) m (vlastítelʹ), владе́лец (ru) m (vladélec)
Scots: laird
Scottish Gaelic: tighearna (gd) m, triath m
Spanish: señor (es) m
Turkish: efendi (tr), sahip (tr), iye (tr), ağa (tr)
Zazaki: wahêr (diq) c, wêr c

ruler, one having mastery over others

Albanian: lekë (sq), zot (sq), zonjë (sq)
Afrikaans: owerste
Arabic: رَبّ‎ m (rabb)
Azerbaijani: bəy (az)
Breton: aotrou (br)
Bulgarian: властелин (bg) m (vlastelin), господар (bg) (gospodar)
Catalan: senyor (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 領主／领主 (zh) (lǐngzhǔ), 君主 (zh) (jūnzhǔ), 統治者／统治者 (zh) (tǒngzhìzhě)
Czech: pán (cs) m
Danish: herre (da) c, hersker (da) c
Dutch: overste (nl) m or f
Egyptian:

(nb)
Finnish: johtaja (fi), hallitsija (fi), valtias (fi)
Galician: señor m
Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 m (frauja)
Greek: άρχοντας (el) m (árchontas), αφέντης (el) m (aféntis), δεσπότης (el) m (despótis)
Ancient: ἄναξ m (ánax), δεσπότης m (despótēs), κοίρανος m (koíranos), μεδέων m (medéōn), πρύτανις (prútanis), κύριος m (kúrios)
Hindi: लार्ड (hi) m (lārḍ), सरवर (hi) m (sarvar), प्रभु (hi) m (prabhu), खुदा (hi) m (khudā)
Hungarian: úr (hu)
Indonesian: prabu (id)
Italian: signore (it) m
Japanese: 卿 (ja) (kyō)
Kazakh: әмірші (kk) (ämırşı)
Khmer: លោកនាយ (louk niey), ចៅហ្វាយ (km) (chav faa yɔɔ)
Macedonian: господар m (gospodar), властелин m (vlastelin), велможа m (velmoža)
Middle English: senyour, lord
Middle Persian: 𐭡𐭢𐭩‎ (bagî)
Nahuatl: tecutli
Old French: seignor
Persian: سرور‎ (fa) (sarvar), خدیو‎ (fa) (xadiv)
Polish: pan (pl) m
Portuguese: senhor (pt) m
Quechua: qhapaq
Russian: властели́н (ru) m (vlastelín), повели́тель (ru) m (povelítelʹ), влады́ка (ru) m (vladýka)
Sanskrit: प्रभु (sa) m (prabhu)
Swedish: herre (sv) c
Ternate: جوو‎ (joou)
Turkish: efendi (tr), bey (tr), hakan (tr), kağan (tr), ağa (tr)
Vandalic: froia m
Zazaki: beg m, ağa m

aristocrat

Albanian: lekë (sq), zot (sq), zonjë (sq)
Afrikaans: heer (af)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܡܪܐ‎ m (mārā), ܪܘܪܒܐ‎ pl (rawrəḇē)
Jewish Aramaic: מָרָא‎ m (mārā)
Belarusian: пан m (pan), лорд m (lord), вяльмо́жа m (vjalʹmóža)
Bulgarian: лорд m (lord)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貴族／贵族 (zh) (guìzú)
Czech: pán (cs) m, aristokrat m
Danish: lensherre c, hersker (da) c, lord (da)
Dutch: landheer (nl) m
Finnish: aristokraatti (fi), ylhäisyys (fi), lordi (fi)
French: seigneur (fr) m, monsieur (fr) m
German: Herr (de) m
Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 m (frauja)
Greek: δεσπότης (el) m (despótis), λόρδος (el) m (lórdos), άρχοντας (el) m (árchontas), ευγενής (el) m (evgenís)
Ancient: ἄναξ m (ánax), πρύτανις (prútanis)
Hindi: लार्ड (hi) m (lārḍ), खुदावंद (hi) m (khudāvand)
Icelandic: lávarður (is) m
Indonesian: prabu (id)
Irish: tiarna (ga) m
Italian: signore (it) m
Latin: dominus (la) m
Macedonian: го́сподар m (góspodar), лорд m (lord), вла́стелин m (vlástelin), ве́лможа m (vélmoža)
Maori: rōre
Middle English: senyour, lord
Middle Korean: 어비〮ᄆᆞᆮ (èpímòt)
Nahuatl: tecutli
Occitan: senhor (oc) m, lòrd
Old French: seignor
Persian: خداوندگار‎ (fa) (xodāvandgār)
Polish: lord (pl) m
Portuguese: senhor (pt) m, lorde (pt) m
Russian: лорд (ru) m (lord), вельмо́жа (ru) m (velʹmóža)
Scottish Gaelic: tighearna (gd) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kněz m
Turkish: beyefendi (tr), toyun
Ukrainian: лорд m (lord), вельмо́жа m (velʹmóža)
Welsh: arglwydd (cy) m
Yiddish: לאָרד‎ m (lord), אָדון‎ m (odn), שׂררה‎ m (srore)
Zazaki: herogırse

titled nobleman

Albanian: lekë (sq)
Afrikaans: heer (af)
Belarusian: пан m (pan)
Bulgarian: лорд m (lord)
Dutch: heer (nl) m
Finnish: aatelinen (fi), aatelismies (fi)
Greek: λόρδος (el) m (lórdos), ευγενής (el) m (evgenís)
Ancient: δεσπότης m (despótēs)
Hindi: लार्ड (hi) m (lārḍ)
Hungarian: lord (hu)
Indonesian: prabu (id)
Italian: nobile (it) m or f, nobiluomo (it) m, nobildonna (it) f
Kazakh: әмірші (kk) (ämırşı)
Khmer: លោកម្ចាស់ (looka’ mchah), ចៅ (km) (chav)
Macedonian: лорд m (lord), го́сподар m (góspodar), ве́лможа m (vélmoža)
Nahuatl: tecutli
Persian: لرد‎ (fa) (lord)
Polish: lord (pl) m
Portuguese: senhor (pt) m, lorde (pt) m
Russian: лорд (ru) m (lord), вельмо́жа (ru) m (velʹmóža)
Turkish: beyefendi (tr), toyun

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Translations to be checked

Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} senior
Persian: ^{(please verify)} خدا‎ (fa) (xodâ)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} gospodar (sh)
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} pán (sk)

Verb

lord (third-person singular simple present lords, present participle lording, simple past and past participle lorded)

(intransitive and transitive) Domineer or act like a lord.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Aegloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:
  The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
(transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.
- c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2:
  He being thus lorded / Not only with what my revenue yielded, / But what my power might else exact, […] / he did believe / He was indeed the Duke

Synonyms

(made a lord): elevate, ennoble, invest

Derived terms

(act like a lord): lord it over

Translations

to lord over

Bulgarian: владея (bg) (vladeja), господствам (bg) (gospodstvam)
Catalan: senyorejar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 作威作福 (zh) (zuòwēizuòfú)
Danish: spille (da) herre (da)
Dutch: heerser (nl) m
Finnish: ylvästellä (fi), esiintyä herrana, herrastella
German: herrschen (de)
Italian: dominare (it), governare (it)
Macedonian: госпо́дари (gospódari)
Russian: госпо́дствовать (ru) (gospódstvovatʹ), вла́ствовать (ru) (vlástvovatʹ)
Slovak: pánčiť sa, rozťahovať sa

References

lord in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
lord at OneLook Dictionary Search

Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "lord, n.". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1903.

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɔɻʈ/

Noun

lord

indefinite accusative singular of lordur

Hungarian

Etymology

From English lord.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈlord]
Hyphenation: lord
Rhymes: -ord

Noun

lord (plural lordok)

lord (English nobleman or aristocrat)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	lord	lordok
accusative	lordot	lordokat
dative	lordnak	lordoknak
instrumental	lorddal	lordokkal
causal-final	lordért	lordokért
translative	lorddá	lordokká
terminative	lordig	lordokig
essive-formal	lordként	lordokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	lordban	lordokban
superessive	lordon	lordokon
adessive	lordnál	lordoknál
illative	lordba	lordokba
sublative	lordra	lordokra
allative	lordhoz	lordokhoz
elative	lordból	lordokból
delative	lordról	lordokról
ablative	lordtól	lordoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	lordé	lordoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	lordéi	lordokéi

Possessive forms of lord
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	lordom	lordjaim
2nd person sing.	lordod	lordjaid
3rd person sing.	lordja	lordjai
1st person plural	lordunk	lordjaink
2nd person plural	lordotok	lordjaitok
3rd person plural	lordjuk	lordjaik

References

Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English lord.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlɔrd/[1]
Rhymes: -ɔrd
Hyphenation: lòrd

Noun

lord m (invariable)

lord (British aristocrat)
gentleman

References

lord in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Middle English

Alternative forms

lorde, lhord, lourd, lourde, laverd
lhoaverd, laford, laverd, loverd, louerd, lowerd (early)

Etymology

From Old English hlāford, hlāfweard, in turn from hlāf (“bread, loaf”) + weard (“ward, guardian, keeper”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɔːrd/
(early) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːwərd/, /ˈlɔːvərd/

Noun

lord (plural lordes)

lord (important man)
- c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎, folio 34, recto, lines 22-23; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:
  I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte.
  "I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me."
- c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 71, recto, lines 4538-4539; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, OCLC 150454844, page 145:
  […] to fare out as faſt · wiþ his fader to ſpeke / ⁊ with lordesse of þat lond · þat him had long miſſed
  […] to comfortably leave to speak with his father and lords from that realm who'd missed him for a long while.
Lord (title of God)

Derived terms

landlorde
lordles
lordly
lordlyng
yere of our lord

Descendants

English: lord (see there for further descendants)
Scots: laird
Yola: loard
→ Icelandic: lávarður (through laverd)

References

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

Proper noun

lord

(Christianity) Lord: Jesus Christ, God the Son
- c. 1400, Lay Folks Mass, Bk. App. iii. 125:
  Þou art a sooþfaste leche, lord.

Interjection

lord

(originally an invocation) Lord: an interjection variously expressing astonishment, surprise, resignation
- c. 1384, John Wyclif, Selected Works, III.358:
  Lord! in tyme of Jesus Crist ... were men not bounden to shryve hem þus.
- c. 1400, Lanfranc of Milan, Practica (trans. as The Science of Chirgurie), 298:
  O lord, whi is it so greet difference betwix a cirurgian & a phisician.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English lord, from Middle English lord and lorde, from lourde, from lowerd, louerd, loverd, laford, lhoaverd, from Old English hlāford, from hlāfweard.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɔrt/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔrt
Syllabification: lord

Noun

lord m pers

Lord (aristocratic title for a man)
lord (aristocrat)
lord (titled nobleman)

Declension

Declension of lord

	singular	plural
nominative	lord	lordowie
genitive	lorda	lordów
dative	lordowi	lordom
accusative	lorda	lordów
instrumental	lordem	lordami
locative	lordzie	lordach
vocative	lordzie	lordowie

Related terms

adjective

lordowski

nouns

lord kanclerz
lord major
lordostwo
lordówna
lord protektor

Romanian

Etymology

From English lord or French lord.

Noun

lord m (plural lorzi)

lord

Declension

Declension of lord

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lord	lordul	(niște) lorzi	lorzii
genitive/dative	(unui) lord	lordului	(unor) lorzi	lorzilor
vocative	lordule		lorzilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English lord.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lôrd/

Noun

lȍrd m (Cyrillic spelling ло̏рд)

lord (British title)

Declension

Declension of lord

	singular	plural
nominative	lȍrd	lòrdovi
genitive	lorda	lòrdōvā
dative	lordu	lordovima
accusative	lorda	lordove
vocative	lorde	lordovi
locative	lordu	lordovima
instrumental	lordom	lordovima

References

“lord” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English lord.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈloɾd/ [ˈloɾð̞]
- Rhymes: -oɾd
- Syllabification: lord
IPA^(key): /ˈloɾ/ [ˈloɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ

Noun

lord m (plural lores)

lord (British title)

Related terms

milord

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English lord.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɫoɾd]
Hyphenation: lord

Noun

lord (definite accusative lordu, plural lordlar)

lord
Hypernym: asilzade

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

lord

Definite accusative

lordu

Singular

Plural

Nominative

lord

lordlar

Definite accusative

lordu

lordları

Dative

lorda

lordlara

Locative

lordda

lordlarda

Ablative

lorddan

lordlardan

Genitive

lordun

lordların

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	lordum	lordlarım
2nd singular	lordun	lordların
3rd singular	lordu	lordları
1st plural	lordumuz	lordlarımız
2nd plural	lordunuz	lordlarınız
3rd plural	lordları	lordları
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	lordumu	lordlarımı
2nd singular	lordunu	lordlarını
3rd singular	lordunu	lordlarını
1st plural	lordumuzu	lordlarımızı
2nd plural	lordunuzu	lordlarınızı
3rd plural	lordlarını	lordlarını
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	lorduma	lordlarıma
2nd singular	lorduna	lordlarına
3rd singular	lorduna	lordlarına
1st plural	lordumuza	lordlarımıza
2nd plural	lordunuza	lordlarınıza
3rd plural	lordlarına	lordlarına
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	lordumda	lordlarımda
2nd singular	lordunda	lordlarında
3rd singular	lordunda	lordlarında
1st plural	lordumuzda	lordlarımızda
2nd plural	lordunuzda	lordlarınızda
3rd plural	lordlarında	lordlarında
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	lordumdan	lordlarımdan
2nd singular	lordundan	lordlarından
3rd singular	lordundan	lordlarından
1st plural	lordumuzdan	lordlarımızdan
2nd plural	lordunuzdan	lordlarınızdan
3rd plural	lordlarından	lordlarından
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	lordumun	lordlarımın
2nd singular	lordunun	lordlarının
3rd singular	lordunun	lordlarının
1st plural	lordumuzun	lordlarımızın
2nd plural	lordunuzun	lordlarınızın
3rd plural	lordlarının	lordlarının

[1] Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "lord, n.". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1903.

[2] Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

[3] rd in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

lord

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Verb

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

References

Faroese

Pronunciation

Noun

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

References

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Proper noun

Interjection

See also

Polish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

References

Spanish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Further reading

Turkish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension