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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
polus m (genitive polī); second declension
- pole (an extreme point of an axis)
- sky, the heavens
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “polus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “polus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- polus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “polus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “polus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “polus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “polus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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