palo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

Bikol Central[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: pa‧lo
• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/, [ˈpa.l̪o]

Noun[edit]

pálo

1. post (on a fence)
2. stake

   Synonym: sugyang

Chavacano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish palo (“stick”), from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

Noun[edit]

palò

1. wood
2. tree

Finnish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

palaa (“to burn”) +‎ -o

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/, [ˈpɑ̝lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧lo

Noun[edit]

palo

1. fire (event of something burning, an occurrence of fire)

   Jotkut kemikaalipalot ovat hankalia sammuttaa.

   Some chemical fires are difficult to put out.

2. ardor (great warmth of feeling)

   tunteen palo ― fervor, passion (lit. fire of feeling)

3. (baseball, pesäpallo) out
4. (cricket) dismissal
5. (dialectal) swidden, area cleared by slash-and-burn cultivation

Declension[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

• (fire): tulipalo

Compounds[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “palo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑloˣ/, [ˈpɑ̝lo̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧lo

Verb[edit]

palo

1. second-person singular present imperative of paloa

Anagrams[edit]

• Alpo, lapo, pola

Ingrian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pallaa (“to burn”) +‎ -o. Akin to Finnish palo.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/, [ˈpɑɫo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/, [ˈpɑɫo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: pa‧lo

Noun[edit]

palo

1. fire (event of something burning)

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page61
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page380

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: pà‧lo

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin pālus, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

Noun[edit]

palom (plural pali)

1. stake, pole, pile, spar
2. (soccer) goalpost
3. (heraldry) pale
4. (slang) lookout (person on watch)

   fare il palo ― to stand guard (literally, “to be a lookout”)

5. slang ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) €1000

Related terms[edit]

• impalare

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

palo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palare

Anagrams[edit]

• Lapo, Pola, aplo-, oplà

K'iche'[edit]

Noun[edit]

palo

1. sea

References[edit]

• Michael Dürr, “Einführung in das kolonialzeitliche K’iche’ (Quiché)”

Koasati[edit]

Noun[edit]

palo

1. flying squirrel

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pālus (“stake”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.loː/, [ˈpäːɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lo/, [ˈpäːlo]

Verb[edit]

pālō (present infinitive pālāre, perfect active pālāvī, supine pālātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to support with stakes, pales or props, prop up

Conjugation[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “palo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Participle[edit]

palo (Cyrillic spelling пало)

1. neuter singular active past participle of pȁsti

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. Cognate with English pole and pale (“fence post”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/ [ˈpa.lo]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

Noun[edit]

palom (plural palos)

1. stake, stick, wood

   Mamá, me pegó con un palo.

   Mom, he hit me with a stick.

2. (card games) suit

   Las barajas suelen tener cuatro palos.

   Decks usually have four suits.

3. hit, blow, strike (especially, with a stick)
4. (figurative) blow
5. (nautical) mast (a tall, slim post or tower used to support the sails on a ship)

   Synonyms: mástil, árbol

6. (sports) post; goalpost; woodwork
7. (historical) execution by hanging or beheading
9. (music) style (of flamenco)
10. (colloquial, El Salvador) tree

    Ella está por el palo de hule.

    She's by the rubber tree.

11. (slang, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) shot (a small serving of alcoholic spirits)

    Synonyms: trago, chupito

    Sírvame un palo de ron.

    Get me a shot of rum.

12. (vulgar, Latin America) penis

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
corazones	diamantes	picas	tréboles

• asta
• pilar

Further reading[edit]

• “palo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palu, from Proto-Austronesian *palu (cf. Malay palu (“hammer”)). Some writers (e.g. English 1985) treat this as a borrowing from Spanish palo (“stick, cudgel”), but it is most likely a chance resemblance.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: pa‧lo
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaloʔ/, [ˈpa.loʔ]

Noun[edit]

palò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓ)

1. stroke with the hand or a stick, usually as punishment; spank

   Synonyms: gulpi, hampas

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: pa‧lo
• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/, [ˈpa.lo]

Noun[edit]

palo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓ)

1. (nautical) mast

   Synonym: puliagan

Derived terms[edit]

• palo-sebo

Further reading[edit]

• “palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Veps[edit]

Etymology[edit]

palada +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish palo.

Noun[edit]

palo

1. destructive fire, conflagration

Declension[edit]

West Makian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.l̪o/

Noun[edit]

palo

1. sibling-in-law of the opposite gender

References[edit]

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

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