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.

Latin [Term?]

palus

1. (historical) Any of the ranks in the hierarchy of gladiators.

• A plus, Alsup, pauls, pulas

palus

1. third-person singular past indicative of paluma

• IPA^(key): /pa.lys/

palus m (invariable)

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

   Synonym: igat

From Proto-Italic *palūts, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“pale, gray”), presumably with semantic shift "gray" > "swamp", though this is semantically tenuous. Either way, related to Latvian peļķe (“puddle”), Lithuanian pelkė (“marsh”), Sanskrit पल्वल (palvala, “pool, pond”), and possibly Ancient Greek πηλός (pēlós, “mud, earth, clay”).^[1]

• padūlis (late)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.ɫuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.lus]

palūs f (genitive palūdis); third declension

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

   palūs silvestris

   swamp in a forest

Third-declension noun.

Reflexes of the late variant padūlis:

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1985), “paúl”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 436
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “palus, -ūdis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 530

From Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fix”). See related terms.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.lus]

pālus m (genitive pālī); second declension

2. stake, prop, stay, pale, post

Second-declension noun.

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

• “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^[2], 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