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pol

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Clipping of politician

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pol (plural pols)

  1. (informal) A politician.

AnagramsEdit

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

ContractionEdit

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

  1. for the, by the

CatalanEdit

NounEdit

pol m, f (plural pols)

  1. pole
    el pol Sud ― the South Pole
    pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

DanishEdit

 
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NounEdit

pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)

  1. a bundle of plants, with the soil it stands on or that hangs from it
  2. (Belgium) a hand

Derived termsEdit

ExtremaduranEdit

PrepositionEdit

pol

  1. by
    Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.
    This book was written by Gabriel García Márquez.
  2. through
  3. for

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French pole, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

  1. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pol

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pol poil
Vocative a phoil a phola
Genitive poil pol
Dative pol poil

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an pol na poil
Genitive an phoil na bpol
Dative leis an bpol

don phol

leis na poil

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pol phol bpol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

InterjectionEdit

pol

  1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
    • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Casina
      Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?
      Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • pol in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pol in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pol in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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NounEdit

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pōl m

  1. pool

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pol (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative pōl pōlas
accusative pōl pōlas
genitive pōles pōla
dative pōle pōlum

DescendantsEdit

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pol
singular plural
nominative pȏl pólovi
genitive pola pólōvā
dative polu polovima
accusative pol polove
vocative pole polovi
locative polu polovima
instrumental polom polovima
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
  2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pol
singular plural
nominative pol polovi
genitive pola polova
dative polu polovima
accusative pol polove
vocative pole polovi
locative polu polovima
instrumental polom polovima
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From pȍla.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

ParticleEdit

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. (Croatia) half
    sat i pol ― an hour and a half
    tri i pol mjeseca ― three and a half months

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pol c

  1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically. (North pole, South pole)
  2. a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
  3. (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pol 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pol polen poler polerna
Genitive pols polens polers polernas

Related termsEdit

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