palo

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

• Hyphenation: pa‧lo
• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/

pálo

1. post (on a fence)
2. stake

   Synonym: sugyang

Inherited from Spanish palo (“stick”), from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaloʔ/,
• Hyphenation: pa‧lo

palò

1. wood
2. tree

From Proto-Finnic *palo, equivalent to palaa (“to burn”) +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧lo

palo

1. (a) fire (event of something burning, an occurrence of fire)

   Jotkut kemikaalipalot ovat hankalia sammuttaa.

   Some chemical fires are difficult to put out.

2. ardor (great warmth of feeling)

   tunteen palo ― fervor, passion (lit. fire of feeling)

3. (baseball, pesäpallo) out
4. (cricket) dismissal
5. (agriculture, historical, dialectal) swidden, area cleared by slash-and-burn cultivation; especially a fresh swidden that has not yet been sown

• (fire): tulipalo

• “palo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑloˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧lo

palo

1. inflection of paloa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Alpo, lapo, pola

From Proto-Finnic *palo, equivalent to pallaa (“to burn”) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish palo and Estonian palu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: pa‧lo

palo

1. fire (event of something burning)

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 380

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: pà‧lo

From Latin pālus, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

palo m (plural pali)

1. stake, pole, pile, spar
2. (soccer) goalpost
3. (heraldry) pale
4. (slang) lookout (person on watch)

   fare il palo ― to stand guard (literally, “to be a lookout”)

5. slang ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) €1000

• impalare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palare

• Lapo, Pola, aplo-, oplà

palo

1. sea

• Michael Dürr, “Einführung in das kolonialzeitliche K’iche’ (Quiché)”

palo

1. flying squirrel

From pālus (“stake”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.loː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lo/,

pālō (present infinitive pālāre, perfect active pālāvī, supine pālātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to support with stakes, pales or props, prop up

• “palo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

palo (Cyrillic spelling пало)

1. neuter singular active past participle of pȁsti

Inherited from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. Cognate with English pole and pale (“fence post”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

palo m (plural palos)

1. stake, stick, wood

   Mamá, me pegó con un palo.

   Mom, he hit me with a stick.

2. (card games) suit

   Las barajas suelen tener cuatro palos.

   Decks usually have four suits.

3. hit, blow, strike (especially, with a stick)
4. (figurative) blow
5. (nautical) mast (a tall, slim post or tower used to support the sails on a ship)

   Synonyms: mástil, árbol

6. (sports) post; goalpost; woodwork
7. (historical) execution by hanging or beheading
9. (music) style (of flamenco)
10. (colloquial, El Salvador) tree

    Ella está por el palo de hule.

    She's by the rubber tree.

11. (slang, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) shot (a small serving of alcoholic spirits)

    Synonyms: trago, chupito

    Sírvame un palo de ron.

    Get me a shot of rum.

12. (vulgar, Latin America) penis

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
corazones	diamantes	picas	tréboles

• asta
• pilar

• “palo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palu, from Proto-Austronesian *palu (cf. Malay palu (“hammer”)). Some writers (e.g. English 1985) treat this as a borrowing from Spanish palo (“stick, cudgel”), but it is most likely a chance resemblance.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaloʔ/
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

palò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓ)

1. stroke with the hand or a stick, usually as punishment; spank

   Synonyms: gulpi, hampas

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

palo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓ)

1. (nautical) mast

   Synonym: puliagan

• palo-sebo

• “palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*palu₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Finnic *palo, equivalent to palada +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish palo.

palo

1. destructive fire, conflagration

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.l̪o/

palo

1. sibling-in-law of the opposite gender

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics