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pale
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?l, IPA(key): /pe?l/
- IPA(key): [p?e???], [p?e??]
- (US)
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: pail
Etymology 1
From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”). Doublet of pallid.
Adjective
pale (comparative paler, superlative palest)
- Light in color.
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
Synonyms
- (human skin): See also Thesaurus:pallid
Derived terms
- pale thrush
Translations
Verb
pale (third-person singular simple present pales, present participle paling, simple past and past participle paled)
- (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
- (intransitive) To become insignificant.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Derived terms
- pale in comparison
Translations
Noun
pale
- (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 589–592:
- The boare (quoth ?he) whereat a ?uddain pale, / Like lawne being ?pred vpon the blu?hing ro?e, / V?urpes her cheeke, ?he trembles at his tale, / And on his neck her yoaking armes ?he throwes.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 589–592:
Etymology 2
From Middle English pale, pal, borrowed from Old French pal, from Latin p?lus (“stake, prop”). English inherited the word pole (or, rather Old English p?l) from a much older Proto-Germanic borrowing of the same Latin word.
Doublet of peel and pole.
Noun
pale (plural pales)
- A wooden stake; a picket.
- 1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,[4]
- […] if you de?ign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot di?tance, ?et a Po?t with a Mortice in it to ?tand a little ?loping over the ?ide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail […] and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when a Pale tumbles down.
- 1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,[4]
- (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,[5]
- How are we park’d and bounded in a pale,
- A little herd of England’s timorous deer,
- Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
- 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, London: William Welby, p. 13,[6]
- Fourthly, they ?hall not vpon any occa?ion what?oeuer breake downe any of our pales, or come into any of our Townes or forts by any other waies, i??ues or ports then ordinary [...].
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,[5]
- (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, in The Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160:[7]
- But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ?tudious cloy?ters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars ma??y proof, / And ?toried windows richly dight, / Ca?ting a dim religious light.
- 1900, Jack London, Son of the Wolf:The Wisdom of the Trail:
- Men so situated, beyond the pale of the honor and the law, are not to be trusted.
- 1919, B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:When and Whom to Marry:
- All things considered, we advise the male reader to keep his desires in check till he is at least twenty-five, and the female not to enter the pale of wedlock until she has attained the age of twenty.
- 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, in The Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160:[7]
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- 2016 October 19, Jeff Flake, on Twitter:
- .@realDonaldTrump saying that he might not accept election results is beyond the pale.
- 2016 October 19, Jeff Flake, on Twitter:
- (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
- (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
- (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 402:
- He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 73:
- A low-lying, marshy enclave stretching eighteen miles along the coast and pushing some eight to ten miles inland, the Pale of Calais nestled between French Picardy to the west and, to the east, the imperial-dominated territories of Flanders.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 402:
- (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
- (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
- A cheese scoop.
- A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spencer to this entry?)
Translations
Verb
pale (third-person singular simple present pales, present participle paling, simple past and past participle paled)
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
- […] your i?le, which ?tands / As Neptunes Parke, ribb’d, and pal’d in / With Oakes vn?kaleable, and roaring Waters, / With Sands that will not bear your Enemies Boates, / But ?uck them vp to th’ Top-ma?t.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
Related terms
- impale
- palisade
- pallescent
References
Anagrams
- Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, peal, pela, plea
Afrikaans
Noun
pale
- plural of paal
Estonian
Noun
pale (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- cheek
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
French
Etymology
From Latin p?la (“shovel, spade”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pal/
- Homophone: pâle (chiefly France)
Noun
pale f (plural pales)
- blade (of a propeller etc)
- vane (of a windmill etc)
Further reading
- “pale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- Alep, lape, lapé, pela
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French parler (“talk, speak”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.le/
Verb
pale
- to talk, to speak
Italian
Noun
pale f
- plural of pala
Anagrams
- alpe, pela
Jakaltek
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish padre (“father”).
Noun
pale
- priest
References
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?[10] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 17; 39
Latin
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (pál?).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pa.le?/, [?pä??e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pa.le/, [?p??l?]
Noun
pal? f (genitive pal?s); first declension
- a wrestling
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
Etymology 2
Noun
p?le
- vocative singular of p?lus
References
- pale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- pale in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pale in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Lindu
Noun
pale
- (anatomy) hand
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pal?/, [?pal?]
Participle
pale
- third-person plural present of pali?
Norman
Etymology
From Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”).
Adjective
pale m or f
- (Jersey) pale
Synonyms
- bliême
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???l?/
Noun
pale ?
- worker
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
pale n (definite singular paleet, indefinite plural pale or paleer, definite plural palea or paleene)
- alternative spelling of palé
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
pale n (definite singular paleet, indefinite plural pale, definite plural palea)
- alternative spelling of palé
Old French
Alternative forms
- pasle
- paule
Etymology
From Latin pallidus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa.l?/
Adjective
pale m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pale)
- pale, whitish or having little color
Descendants
- English: pale
- French: pâle
- Norman: pale (Jersey)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa.l?/
- Homophone: pal?
Noun
pale m
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pal
Noun
pale m
- locative/vocative singular of pa?
Noun
pale f
- dative/locative singular of pa?a
Further reading
- pale in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
pale (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of paliti
Swahili
Pronunciation
Adjective
pale
- Pa class inflected form of -le.
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ill
English
Etymology
From Middle English ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse illr (adj), illa (adverb), ilt (noun) (whence Icelandic illur, Norwegian ille, Danish ilde), from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?elk- (whence Latin ulcus (“sore”), Ancient Greek ????? (hélkos, “wound, ulcer”), Sanskrit ?????? (ár?as, “hemorrhoids”) (whence Hindi ???? (ar?)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Adjective
ill (comparative worse or iller or more ill, superlative worst or illest or most ill)
- (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people). [13th-19th c.]
- 1709, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preached before the Sons of the Clergy, at their Anniversary-Meeting, in the Church of St. Paul (December 6, 1709)
- St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
- A man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him.
- 1709, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preached before the Sons of the Clergy, at their Anniversary-Meeting, in the Church of St. Paul (December 6, 1709)
- (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. [from 13th c.]
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 2:
- ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 2:
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. [from 14th c.]
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. [from 15th c.]
- Mentally ill people.
- Having an urge to vomit. [from 20th c.]
- (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- 1986, Beastie Boys, License to Ill
- 1994, Biggie Smalls, The What
- Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (dated) Unwise; not a good idea.
- 1672, George Swinnock, The Incomparableness of God
- Oh that when the devil and flesh entice the sinner to sport with and make a mock of sin, Prov. x. 23, he would but consider, it is ill jesting with edged tools, it is ill jesting with unquenchable burnings; […]
- 1914, Indian Ink (volume 1, page 32)
- They arrested everybody—and it is ill to resist a drunken Tommy with a loaded rifle!
- 1672, George Swinnock, The Incomparableness of God
Usage notes
- The comparative worse and superlative worst are the standard forms. The forms iller and illest are also used in American English, but are less than a quarter as frequent as "more" and "most" forms. The forms iller, illest are quite common in the slang sense "sublime".
Synonyms
- (suffering from a disease): diseased, poorly (UK), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell
- (having an urge to vomit): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened
- (bad): bad, mal-
- (in hip-hop slang: sublime): dope
- See also Thesaurus:diseased
Antonyms
- (suffering from a disease): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well
- (bad): good
- (in hip-hop slang: sublime): wack
Derived terms
Translations
References
Adverb
ill (comparative worse or more ill, superlative worst or most ill)
- Not well; imperfectly, badly
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
- Within, I found it, as I had expected, transcendently dismal. The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 541:
- His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.
- 2006, Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in Libération, 2002 February 2, quoted in Élisabeth Badinter (quoting author), Dead End Feminism, Polity, ?ISBN, page 40:
- Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
Synonyms
- illy
Antonyms
- well
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
ill (countable and uncountable, plural ills)
- (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
- Harm or injury.
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- A physical ailment; an illness.
- (US, slang, uncountable) PCP, phencyclidine.
Derived terms
- for good or ill
Translations
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Further reading
- ill at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Lil, li'l, li'l', lil
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse illr, from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz. Along English ill, probably cognate with Irish olc.
Adjective
ill (masculine and feminine ill, neuter ilt, definite singular and plural ille, comparative illare, superlative indefinite illast, superlative definite illaste)
- bad
- sore
- angry, wroth
- (in compounds) strong, very
Related terms
- illa, ille (verb)
- ille (adverb)
References
- “ill” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Scots
Adjective
ill (comparative waur, superlative warst)
- ill
- bad, evil, wicked
- harsh, severe
- profane
- difficult, troublesome
- awkward, unskilled
Adverb
ill (comparative waur, superlative warst)
- ill
- badly, evilly, wickedly
- harshly, severely
- profanely
- with difficulty
- awkwardly, inexpertly
Noun
ill (plural ills)
- ill
- ill will, malice
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- il
Etymology
From Old Norse illr, from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?elk-.
Adjective
ill (neuter illt)
- evil, bad
- Han iles onga
- The evil one's kids
- Ja har illt i fotom
- I have pain in my feet.
- Han har illt uti säg
- He is concerned.
- Han har illt ini säg
- He has stomach pains.
- Ji hav illt hóvudä
- I have a headache.
- Han iles onga
Derived terms
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English willen, from Old English willan, from Proto-West Germanic *willjan.
Verb
ill
- will
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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