palisade

See also: Palisade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

palisade (plural palisades)

1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
2. (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 261]:

     I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.

3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
4. (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

Derived terms

• palisade worm
• palisadic

Related terms

► English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂ǵ-‎ (0 c, 8 e)

Translations

long, strong stake with sharpened head

• Finnish: paalu (fi), teroitettu paalu

wall of wooden stakes

• Assamese: হেঙাৰ (heṅar)
• Catalan: palissada f
• Dutch: palissade (nl) f
• Estonian: pihtaed
• Finnish: paaluaita, paaluvarustus (fi), palisadi (fi)
• French: palissade (fr) f
• German: Palisade (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: χάραξ f (khárax)

• Italian: palizzata (it) f

• Latin: vallum n, vallus m, sublica f
• Macedonian: палиса́да f (palisáda)
• Maori: takitaki, tātākaitaua, pātūtū, pekerangi, kiritangata, awhikiri, hukahuka, kereteki, tīwatawata, pīwatawata, reu, wītā
• Polish: palisada (pl) f, częstokół m, ostrokół (pl) m
• Portuguese: paliçada (pt)
• Romanian: palisadă (ro) f, palancă (ro) f
• Russian: палиса́д (ru) m (palisád), частоко́л (ru) m (častokól)
• Spanish: palizada f

a line of cliffs

Verb

palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)

1. (transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French palissade.

Noun

palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)

1. palisade (stick)
2. palisade (wall of sticks)

Declension

Declension of palisade

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	palisade	palisaden	palisader	palisaderne
genitive	palisades	palisadens	palisaders	palisadernes

References

• “palisade” in Den Danske Ordbog