different between pales vs palea

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?lz/
• Homophone: pails

Verb

pales

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pale

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?lz/
• Homophone: pails

Noun

pales

1. plural of pale

Etymology 3

Noun

pales

1. plural of palea

Anagrams

• ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Leaps, Peals, Slape, e-pals, lapse, leaps, lepas, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, slape, spale

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pa.l?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pa.les/

Noun

pales

1. plural of pala

French

Noun

pales f

1. plural of pale

Latin

Verb

p?l?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of p?l?

Anagrams

• Alpes

Norman

Adjective

pales pl

1. plural of pale (“pale”)

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.