palisade

See also: Palisade

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French palissade, from Old French, from Old Provençal palissada, from palissa (“stake”), from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”).

PronunciationEdit

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

NounEdit

palisade (plural palisades)

1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
2. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
4. (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

Derived termsEdit

• palisade worm

TranslationsEdit

a wall of wooden stakes

• Catalan: palissada f
• Dutch: palissade (nl) f
• Estonian: pihtaed
• Finnish: paaluaita, paaluvarustus, palisadi (fi)
• French: palissade (fr) f
• German: Palisade (de) f
• Italian: palizzata (it) f

• Latin: vallum n, vallus m, sublica f
• Macedonian: палисада f (palisáda)
• Maori: takitaki
• Polish: palisada (pl) f, częstokół m, ostrokół (pl) m
• Portuguese: paliçada (pt)
• Russian: палиса́д (ru) m (palisád), частоко́л (ru) m (častokól)

a line of cliffs

VerbEdit

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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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French palissade.

NounEdit

palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of palisade

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

ReferencesEdit

• “palisade” in Den Danske Ordbog