palus

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

• palar
• paliform

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

• A plus, Alsup, pauls, pulas

Estonian

Verb

palus

1. third-person singular past indicative of paluma

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.lys/

Noun

palus m (plural palus)

1. Alternative form of palud (“swamp”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ly/

Noun

palus m pl

1. plural of palu

Further reading

• “palus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• padūlis (late)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.luːs/, [ˈpäɫ̪uːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lus/, [ˈpäːlus]

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

• palūdester
• palūdicolus
• palūdifer
• palūdigena
• palūdivagus
• palūdōsus
• Palūs Maeōtis
• palūster

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: palude
• North Italian:
  • Istriot: paloû
  • Ladin: paluk, palú
  • Lombard: palut
  • Piedmontese: palú
  • Romansch: palieu, paleu, pale, palukt, palü
  • Venetian: palude
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: palu
    • French: palud, palus
    • Norman: palu
  • Old Gascon: palu
  • Old Occitan: palut, palus
• Borrowings:
  • → French: palude
  • → Portuguese: palude
  • → Romanian: paludă
  • → Spanish: palude

Reflexes of the late variant padūlis:

• Balkan Romance: (with a semantic shift to "forest")
  • Aromanian: pãduri
  • Megleno-Romanian: păduri
  • Romanian: pădure
  • → Proto-Albanian: *pëdyll, *pëýll
    • Albanian: pyll
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: padula
  • Italian: padule
  • Neapolitan: padula
  • Sicilian: padula
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: padule, paule, pauli
• North Italian:
  • Lombard: padum
  • Old Ligurian: paú
    • Ligurian: padú (outside influence?)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: paul
    • Catalan: Paül (toponym)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Mozarabic: *padul
    • → Spanish: Padul, Padules (southern toponyms)
  • Navarro-Aragonese: padul
  • Portuguese: paul
  • Spanish: paúl
  • → Basque: padura, fadura

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “paúl”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 436
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “palus, -ūdis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 530

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.lus/, [ˈpäːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lus/, [ˈpäːlus]

Noun

pālus m (genitive pālī); second declension

2. 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

• (stake): stilus, sudis, tālea, vallus

Derived terms

• impālō
• pālāris
• pālātiō
• pālō
• pāxillus
• tripālis

Related terms

• paciscor
• pāgina
• pāgus
• pāngō
• pāx
• pignus
• pīla

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: par
  • Romanian: par
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: palo
  • Neapolitan: palo
  • Sicilian: palu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: pâl
  • Piedmontese: pal
  • Romagnol:

    pêl (Ravenna, Cattolica)

    pël (San Marino)

    pél (Lugo)

  • Romansch: pal, pêl
  • Venetian: pało, pal
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pal
  • Old French: pal
    • Middle French: pieu
      • French: pieu
    • Anglo-Norman: pel
      • → Middle English: peel
        • English: peel ('stake', obsolete)
    • → Middle English: pale
      • English: pale
  • Occitan: pal
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: palu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pao
    • Galician: pau
    • Portuguese: pau (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: palo
    • Papiamentu: palu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: palu, pau
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: pallë
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *pālu (see there for further descendants)
• Later borrowings:
  • → Dutch: paal
  • → English: palus
  • → French: pal
  • → Polish: pal

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^[1], 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