palus

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See also: Palus and palús

English

Etymology 1

From Latin pālus (stake, post). Doublet of pole, peel, and pale.

Noun

palus (plural pali)

  1. (marine biology) A vertical pillar along the inner septal margin of a coral.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin palūs (marsh, swamp).

Noun

palus (plural paludes)

  1. (planetology) A small plain (compared to mare) on the surface of a planet or satellite.

Anagrams

Estonian

Verb

palus

  1. third-person singular past indicative of paluma

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

palus m (plural palus)

  1. Alternative form of palud (swamp)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

palus m pl

  1. plural of palu

Further reading

Kapampangan

Noun

palus

  1. black eel
    Synonym: igat

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *palūts, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (pale, gray) (presumably with semantic shift "gray" > "swamp", though this is semantically tenuous). Either way, related to Latvian peļķe (puddle), Lithuanian pelkė (marsh), Sanskrit पल्वल (palvala, pool, pond), and possibly Ancient Greek πηλός (pēlós, mud, earth, clay).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

palūs f (genitive palūdis); third declension

  1. swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, pool
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative palūs palūdēs
Genitive palūdis palūdum
Dative palūdī palūdibus
Accusative palūdem palūdēs
Ablative palūde palūdibus
Vocative palūs palūdēs
Derived terms
Descendants

Reflexes of the late variant padūlis:

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 442
  2. ^ “paul” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. See related terms.

Pronunciation

Noun

pālus m (genitive pālī); second declension

  1. stake, prop, stay, pale, post
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pālus pālī
Genitive pālī pālōrum
Dative pālō pālīs
Accusative pālum pālōs
Ablative pālō pālīs
Vocative pāle pālī
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: pal
    • Old French: pal
      • Middle French: pieu
      • Anglo-Norman: pel
        • Middle English: peel
          • English: peel ('stake', obsolete)
      • Middle English: pale
    • Occitan: pal
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: palu
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: pao
      • Galician: pau
      • Portuguese: pau (see there for further descendants)
    • Spanish: palo
  • Insular Romance:
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • Albanian: pallë
    • Proto-West Germanic: *pālu (see there for further descendants)
  • Later borrowings:

Further reading

  • palus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • palus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • palus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to bind to the stake: ad palum deligare (Liv. 2. 5)
  • palus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 443