palea

See also: paleá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪə/, /ˈpeɪlɪə/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪə/, /ˈpeɪlɪə/

Noun

palea (plural paleae)

(botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
(botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
(zoology) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

Translations

botany: interior chaff or husk of grasses

botany: chaffy scale or bractlet growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers

zoology: pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird — see dewlap

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for palea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

palae, palae-, palæ-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Cognate with puls, pulvis, pollen, Sanskrit पलाव (palāva, “chaff”), Old Church Slavonic плева (pleva), Russian полова (polova), and Lithuanian pelus.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.le.a/, [ˈpa.ɫe.a]

Noun

palea f (genitive paleae); first declension

(usually in the plural) chaff.
The wattles or gills of a cock.
dross
husk
straw

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palea	paleae
Genitive	paleae	paleārum
Dative	paleae	paleīs
Accusative	paleam	paleās
Ablative	paleā	paleīs
Vocative	palea	paleae

Synonyms

(chaff): pillō (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

Descendants

Aromanian: palj, paljiu, palji, paljã
Asturian: paya
Catalan: palla, pàlea
→ English: palea
French: paille
Friulian: pae
Galician: palla
Istriot: paja, paia
Italian: paglia
Neapolitan: paglia

Norman: pâlle (Jersey)
Occitan: palha
Portuguese: palha
Romanian: paie, pai
Sardinian: padha, palla, paxa, patza, pàgia
Sicilian: pagghia
Spanish: paja
Venetian: paja
Walloon: paye

References

palea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
palea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
palea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
palea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
palea in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 802

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paˈlea/

Verb

palea

Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of palear.
Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of palear.

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