palus

From Latin pālus (“stake, post”). Doublet of pole, peel, and pale.

palus (plural pali)

1. (marine biology) A vertical pillar along the inner septal margin of a coral.

• palar
• paliform

From Latin palūs (“marsh, swamp”).

palus (plural paludes)

1. (planetology) A small plain (compared to mare) on the surface of a planet or satellite.

• A plus, Alsup, pauls, pulas

palus

1. third-person singular past indicative of paluma

• IPA^(key): /pa.lys/

palus m (plural palus)

1. Alternative form of palud (“swamp”)

• IPA^(key): /pa.ly/

palus m pl

1. plural of palu

• “palus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

palus

1. black eel

• igat

From Proto-Italic *palūts, related to Latvian pelce (“puddle”), Lithuanian pelkė (“marsh”), Sanskrit पल्वल (palvala, “pool, pond”), and possibly Ancient Greek πηλός (pēlós, “mud, earth, clay”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.luːs/, [ˈpäɫ̪uːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lus/, [ˈpäːlus]

palūs f (genitive palūdis); third declension

1. swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, pool

Third-declension noun.

From Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. See related terms.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.lus/, [ˈpäːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lus/, [ˈpäːlus]

pālus m (genitive pālī); second declension

1. stake, prop, stay, pale, post

Second-declension noun.

• (stake): stilus, sudis, tālea, vallus

• impālō
• pālāris
• pālātiō
• pālō
• pāxillus

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “palus, -ūdis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 530

• “palus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palus 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)
• palus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bind to the stake: ad palum deligare (Liv. 2. 5)
    
• “palus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “palus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin