palisade

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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

• Latin: vallum n, vallus m
• 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)

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DeclensionEdit

Inflection 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