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Webster 1913 Edition

Lache

{

Lach′es

(lăsh′ĕz)
,

Lache

(lăsh)
, }
Noun.
[OF.
lachesse
, fr.
lache
lax, indolent, F.
lâche
, ultimately fr. L.
laxus
loose, lax. See
Lax
.]
(Law)
Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; especially, a delay in asserting a claim, sufficient to cause a person to lose the right to adjuducation of the claim by a court.
It ill became him to take advantage of such a
laches
with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lache

LACHE

,

Definition 2024

Lache

Lache

See also: lache, lachè, lâche, and lâché

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaːxə/, [ˈlaːχə]
  • Hyphenation: La‧che
  • Rhymes: -aːχə
  • Rhymes: -aχə

Noun

Lache f ‎(genitive Lache, plural Lachen)

  1. puddle
  2. pool
Usage notes
  • Lache is usually said of a puddle that has come about through leaking or dripping, while one stemming from rain is called Pfütze.
Derived terms
  • Blutlache
  • Öllache

Etymology 2

From Middle High German lache, from lachen ‎(“to laugh”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaxə/, [ˈlaχə]
  • Hyphenation: La‧che

Noun

Lache f ‎(genitive Lache, plural Lachen)

  1. a loud laughter
  2. a person's particular way of laughing; one's laugh

Declension

lache

lache

See also: Lache, lachè, lâche, and lâché

Dutch

Verb

lache

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lachen

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaχə/
  • Hyphenation: la‧che
  • Rhymes: -aχə

Verb

lache

  1. First-person singular present of lachen.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of lachen.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of lachen.
  4. Imperative singular of lachen.

Norman

Noun

lache f ‎(plural laches)

  1. (Jersey, nautical) bollard, lash

Etymology

From Middle High German lache, from Old High German lacha, lahha ‎(“swamp, marsh”), from Proto-Germanic *lakō ‎(“lake, pool”). The same word in a Low German form is Lake ‎(“brine”), from Middle Low German lāke ‎(“standing water; brine”), which latter seems also to have triggered the lengthened pronunciation of the -a- in Lache. Further cognates include Dutch laak ‎(“lake, pond, stream”), Old English lacu ‎(“lake, pond, stream”). More at lake.

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