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

Synonyms

• igat

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *palūts, related to Latvian pelce (“puddle”), Lithuanian pelkė (“marsh”), Sanskrit पल्वल (palvala, “pool, pond”), and possibly Ancient Greek πηλός (pēlós, “mud, earth, clay”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.luːs/, [ˈpäɫ̪uːs̠]
• (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
• 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 (silent ⟨d⟩), palus
    • Norman: palu
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Gascon: palu
  • Old Occitan: palut, palus
• Late Latin: padūlis (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → French: palude
  • → Portuguese: paul, palude
  • → Romanian: paludă
  • → Spanish: palude

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.lus/, [ˈpäːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (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

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:
  • Old French: pal
    • Middle French: pieu
      • French: pieu
    • Anglo-Norman: pel
      • → Middle English: peel
        • English: peel ('stake', obsolete)
    • → Middle English: pale
      • English: pale
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: pal
  • 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)
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Dutch: paal
  • → English: palus
  • → French: pal
  • → Polish: pal

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “palus, -ūdis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 530

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