English

Noun

palea ‎(plural paleae)

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

Translations

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

palea f ‎(genitive paleae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) chaff.
2. The wattles or gills of a cock.
3. dross
4. husk
5. straw

Declension

First declension.

Synonyms

• (chaff): pillō (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

Descendants

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “palea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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): /paˈle.a/

Verb

palea

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