loath

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• lōth
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ləʊθ/
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• General-American: /loʊθ/
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• rhymes with -əʊθ
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• CMU ARPABET: L OW1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English lōth (“loath; averse, hateful”), from Old English lāð, lāþ (“evil; loathsome”), or Old Norse leið, leiðr (“uncomfortable; tired”) from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“loath; hostile; sad, sorry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2leyt- (“to do something abhorrent or hateful”). The word is cognate with Danish led (“disgusting, loathsome; nasty”), Dutch leed (“sad; (Belgium) angry”), French laid (“ugly; morally corrupt”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Icelandic leiður (“annoyed, vexed; sad; (archaic or poetic) annoying, wearisome”), Italian laido (“filthy, foul; obscene”), Old Frisian leed, Old High German leid (Middle High German leit, modern German leid (“uncomfortable”), Leid (“grief, sorrow, woe; affliction, suffering; harm, injury; wrong”)), Old Saxon lêð, lēth (“evil person or thing”), Swedish led (“bored; tired; (archaic) disgusting, loathsome; evil”).

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: неохотен (neohoten) — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Czech: neochotný — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Czech: zdráhající se — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Dutch: aarzelend — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Dutch: afkerig — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Dutch: weifelend — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Dutch: weigerachtig — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Esperanto: hezitema — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Finnish: haluton — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Finnish: vastahakoinen — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• French: hésitant — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• French: réticent — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• German: abgeneigt — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Hungarian: kelletlen — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Hungarian: vonakodik — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Hungarian: átall — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Irish: leisciúil — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Irish: leasc — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Italian: restio — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Italian: riluttante — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Italian: ritroso — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Māori: koto — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Portuguese: relutante — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Portuguese: hesitante — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Portuguese: reticente — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Romanian: reticent — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Romanian: ezitant — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Russian: неохотный (neoxotnyj) — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Russian: нежелающий (neželajuščij) — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Scots: laith — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Scots: sweirt — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Scottish Gaelic: leisg — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Spanish: poco dispuesto — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Spanish: reticente — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant
• Turkish: isteksiz — averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling — see also averse, reluctant