palo

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

• Hyphenation: pa‧lo
• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/

pálo

1. post (on a fence)
2. stake

   Synonym: sugyang

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

palò

1. wood
2. tree

palaa (“to burn”) +‎ -o

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

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

• (fire): tulipalo

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

palo

1. second-person singular present imperative of paloa

• Alpo, lapo, pola

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

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

palo

1. fire (event of something burning)

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 380

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

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

palo m (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”)

• impalare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palare

• Lapo, Pola, aplo-, oplà

palo

1. sea

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

palo

1. flying squirrel

From pālus (“stake”).

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

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

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

• “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

palo (Cyrillic spelling пало)

1. neuter singular active past participle of pȁsti

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/ [ˈpa.lo]

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

palo m (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
8. (music) style (of flamenco)
9. (colloquial, El Salvador) tree

   Ella está por el palo de hule.

   She's by the rubber tree.

10. (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.

11. (vulgar, Latin America) penis

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

• pala

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

• asta
• pilar

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

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.

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

palò

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

   Synonyms: gulpi, hampas

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

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

palo

1. (nautical) mast

   Synonym: puliagan

• palo-sebo

• “palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

palada +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish palo.

palo

1. conflagration

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.l̪o/

palo

1. sibling-in-law of the opposite gender

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