pāla
Meaning
- A shovel, spade.
- blade
- The bezel of a ring.
ibi cum palam eius anuli ad palmam converterat a nullo videbatur ipse autem omnia videbat
As often as he turned the bezel of the ring inwards toward the palm of his hand, he became invisible to everyone, while he himself saw everything;c. 44 BC, Cicero, De Officiis, 3.38 - Classical Latinrarethe banana plant
Maior alia pomo et suavitate praecellentior, quo sapientes Indorum vivunt. Folium alas avium imitatur, longitudine trium cubitorum, latitudine duum. Fructum cortice emittit admirabilem suci dulcedine, ut uno quaternos satiet. Arbori nomen palae, pomo arienae. Plurima est in Sydracis, expeditionum Alexandri termino.
There is a greater one, surpassing other fruit trees even in softness, which Indian sages live on. Its leaf copies the wings of birds, being three cubits in length and two in width. It produces its fruit from its bark, and the fruit is astonishing in its sweetness, one being enough for four people. The name of the tree is the pala, and ariena that of the fruit. It is found in great number among the Sydraci, at the limit of Alexander the Great's campaigns.77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia XII.24
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Aperire · Patefacere · Aperte · Palam · Manifesto · Propalam
1. Aperire (from πεπαρεῖν) means ‘to open’ a space that is covered at top, and therefore in a horizontal direction, as, for instance, pits and springs, and thereby to make them visible; patefacere, ‘to open’ a space whose sides are closed; hence, to open in a perpendicular direction, as, for instance, gates, roads, and fields, and thereby to make them accessible. 2. Returare (from στέφω, German stopfen) means, to make accessible an opening that has been stopped up; recludere, an opening that has been shut up; reserare, an opening that has been barred up. 3. Aperte means ‘openly,’ and without concealment, so that everybody can perceive and know, in opp. to occulte, like φανερῶς; palam (from planus), ‘openly,’ and without hiding anything, so that everybody can see and hear, in opp. to clam, like ἀναφανδόν; manifesto, palpably, so that one is spared all inquiry, all conjecture, all exertion of the senses and of the mind, like δῆλον. 4. Palam denotes that openness which does not shun observation; propalam, that which courts observation. Cic. Orat. i. 35. Neque proposito argento neque tabulis et signis propalam collocatis; that is, to everybody’s admiration: compare with Pis. 36. Mensis palam propositis; that is, without fear and constraint. (v. 291.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pāla | pālae |
| genitive | pālae | pālārum |
| dative | pālae | pālīs |
| accusative | pālam | pālās |
| ablative | pālā | pālīs |
| vocative | pāla | pālae |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
- to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things).
pala a pangendo, Varr. L. L. 5, § 134 Müll., palas vendundas sibi ait ... ut hortum fodiat, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 58: sarcula VIII., palas IV., Cato, R. R. 10, 3: palae innixus, Liv. 3, 26: juncosus ager verti pala debet, Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 46: palis laxatus, id. 17, 17, 27, § 123; Col. 10, 45.—palam anuli ad palmam convertere, Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38.—Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *pākslā, from Proto-Indo-European *pak-slo-, from *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fasten”). See pangō, pāgus, pacīscor, pāx, pāgina. Compare typologically Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick into, to pierce; to dig, to ditch; …”) (whence Latin fīvō, fīgō, English dig).
- Catalanpala
- Englishpale
- Frenchpellefrom Old French pele
- Frenchpale
- Italianpala
- Frenchpalachefrom Italian pala
- GermanPallaschfrom Italian pala
- Romanianpaloșfrom Italian pala
- Portuguesepáfrom Old Galician-Portuguese paa
- Portuguesepala