palea

See also: paleá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪə/, /ˈpeɪlɪə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪə/, /ˈpeɪlɪə/

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.
   • 1917, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, A Monograph of the Genus Brickellia:

     In a single Brazilian species, doubtfully referred to Brickellia, a few pales occur toward the edge of the disk.

Derived terms

• paleaceous
• paleal
• paleate
• paleola
• paleous

 

Translations

botany: interior chaff or husk of grasses

botany: chaffy scale or bractlet growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers

References

• “palea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• palae, palae-, palæ-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *palejā (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- (“chaff”); the original meaning of the Proto-Indo-European appears to be "to swing", with the "chaff" meaning being a semantic extension from "to swing" > "to thresh corn" > "the chaff separated from the fruit by threshing action". Cognate with Sanskrit पलाव (palāva, “chaff”), Old Church Slavonic плева (pleva), Russian полова (polova), Lithuanian pelus, Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to swing, sway”). See also pulvis (“powder”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.le.a/, [ˈpäɫ̪eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.le.a/, [ˈpäːleä]

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	palea	paleae
genitive	paleae	paleārum
dative	paleae	paleīs
accusative	paleam	paleās
ablative	paleā	paleīs
vocative	palea	paleae

Synonyms

• (chaff): pillō (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

• paleālis
• palear
• paleāris
• paleārium
• paleātus

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: palj, paljiu, palji, paljã
• Asturian: paya, pacha, payya
• Catalan: palla, pàlea
• Franco-Provençal: palye
• French: paille
• Friulian: pae
• Istriot: paja, paia
• Italian: paglia
• Neapolitan: paglia
• Norman: pâlle (Jersey)
• Occitan: palha
• Old French: paillet
  • English: pallet (“bed made of straw or hay”)
• Piedmontese: paja
• Old Galician-Portuguese: palha
  • Galician: palla
  • Portuguese: palha
• Romanian: paie, pai
• Sardinian: padha, palla, paxa, patza, pàgia
• Sicilian: pagghia
• Spanish: paja
• Venetan: paja
• Walloon: paye
• Borrowings:
  • → English: palea

Further reading

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 802

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈlea/ [paˈle.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: pa‧le‧a

Verb

palea

1. inflection of palear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative