different between chaffy vs palea

English

Etymology

chaff +? -y

Adjective

chaffy (comparative chaffier, superlative chaffiest)

1. Like or containing chaff.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl??/, /?pe?l??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pal??/, /?pe?l??/

Noun

palea (plural paleae or pales)

1. (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
2. (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• palae, palae-, palæ-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Cognate with puls, pulvis, pollen, Sanskrit ???? (pal?va, “chaff”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (pleva), Russian ?????? (polova), and Lithuanian pelus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa.le.a/, [?pä??eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.le.a/, [?p??l??]

Noun

palea f (genitive paleae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) chaff.
2. The wattles or gills of a cock.
3. dross
4. husk
5. straw

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (chaff): pill? (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• palea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• palea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• palea in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 802

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?lea/, [pa?le.a]

Verb

palea

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of palear.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of palear.