From en.wiktionary.org:
[paleá]
** English
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[paleae]
1. [en] The interior chaff or husk of grass es.
2. [en] One of the chaffy scale s or bractlet s growing on the receptacle of many compound flower s, such as the sunflower .
3. * [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[_botany:_ interior chaff or husk of grasses] [trans-bottom]
[_botany:_ chaffy scale or bractlet growing on the receptacle of many compound
flowers] [trans-bottom]
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Latin
*** Etymology
From [la], from [la]; the original meaning of the Proto-Indo-European appears
to be "to swing", with the "chaff" meaning being a semantic extension from "to
swing" > "to thresh corn" > "the chaff separated from the fruit by threshing
action". Cognate with [sa], [cu], [ru], [lt], [grc]. See also [la].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [palea]
*** Noun
[palea <1>]
1. [la] chaff
2. The wattles or gills of a cock .
3. dross
4. husk
5. straw
**** Declension
[palea <1>]
**** Synonyms
- [chaff] [la] [Mediaeval]
**** Derived terms
[la]
**** Descendants
[top2]
- [rup]
- [ast]
- [ca]
- [frp]
- [fr]
- [fur]
- [ist]
- [it]
- [nap]
- [nrf] [Jersey]
- [oc]
- [fro]
- [en]
- [pms]
- [roa-opt]
- [ro]
- [sc]
- [scn]
- [es]
- [vec]
- [wa]
- Borrowings:
- [en]
[bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. [page=440]
*** Further reading
- [R:L&S]
- [R:Elementary Lewis]
- [R:du Cange]
- [R:Gaffiot]
- [R:PersEnc]
- [page=802]
** Spanish
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Verb
[es]
1. [palear]