palea
See also: paleá
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin palea (“chaff”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
palea (plural paleae or pales)
- (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
- (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
- 1917, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, A Monograph of the Genus Brickellia:
- In a single Brazilian species, doubtfully referred to Brickellia, a few pales occur toward the edge of the disk.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
botany: interior chaff or husk of grasses
botany: chaffy scale or bractlet growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers
References edit
- “palea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *palejā (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- (“chaff”); the original meaning of the Proto-Indo-European appears to be "to swing", with the "chaff" meaning being a semantic extension from "to swing" > "to thresh corn" > "the chaff separated from the fruit by threshing action". Cognate with Sanskrit पलाव (palāva, “chaff”), Old Church Slavonic плева (pleva), Russian полова (polova), Lithuanian pelus, Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to swing, sway”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.le.a/, [ˈpäɫ̪eä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.le.a/, [ˈpäːleä]
Noun edit
palea f (genitive paleae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | palea | paleae |
Genitive | paleae | paleārum |
Dative | paleae | paleīs |
Accusative | paleam | paleās |
Ablative | paleā | paleīs |
Vocative | palea | paleae |
Synonyms edit
- (chaff): pillō (Mediaeval)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: palj, paljiu, palji, paljã
- Asturian: paya
- Catalan: palla, pàlea
- French: paille
- Friulian: pae
- Istriot: paja, paia
- Italian: paglia
- Neapolitan: paglia
- Norman: pâlle (Jersey)
- Occitan: palha
- Old French: paillet
- English: pallet (“bed made of straw or hay”)
- Piedmontese: paja
- Old Galician-Portuguese: palha
- Romanian: paie, pai
- Sardinian: padha, palla, paxa, patza, pàgia
- Sicilian: pagghia
- Spanish: paja
- Venetian: paja
- Walloon: paye
- Borrowings:
- → English: palea
References edit
- “palea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “palea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- palea 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)
- palea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “palea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 802
- ^ 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 440
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
palea
- inflection of palear: