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Pol
Pol
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology
Short form of Leopold, Apollonius, Napoleon, and also a modern variant of Paul.
Proper noun
Pol ?
- A male given name.
German
Etymology
From Ancient Greek via Latin polus
Pronunciation
Noun
Pol m (genitive Poles or Pols, plural Pole)
- pole (geographical, electrical, magnetical)
Declension
Derived terms
pol
pol
Asturian
Etymology
From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).
Contraction
pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)
Catalan
Noun
pol m, f (plural pols)
- pole
- el pol Sud ― the South Pole
- pol magnètic ― magnetic pole
Danish
Noun
pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)
- pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
- a pole in geometry.
- pole of a magnet, negative or positive.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔl
Noun
pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)
Derived terms
- graspol
Extremaduran
Preposition
pol
- by
- Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.
- This book was written by Gabriel García Márquez.
- Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.
- through
- for
Irish
Etymology
From Middle French pole, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pˠɔlˠ]
Noun
pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
pol | phol | bpol |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Latin
Interjection
pol
- by Pollux!, truly!, really!
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- Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?
- Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?
- Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?
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See also
References
- pol in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pol in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- POL in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
- to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)
- pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
- a pole in geometry.
- pole of a magnet, negative or positive.
Derived terms
References
- “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)
- pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
- a pole in geometry.
- pole of a magnet, negative or positive.
Derived terms
References
- “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).
Pronunciation
Noun
pōl m
Declension
Descendants
- English: pool
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pôːl/
Noun
pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)
- pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- spȏl (Croatia)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pôːl/
Noun
pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)
- (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
- (Bosnia, Serbia) gender
Declension
Derived terms
- polni
Etymology 3
From pȍla.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pôːl/
Particle
pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)
- half
- sat i po(l) ― an hour and a half
- tri i po m(j)eseca ― three and a half months
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
pol c
- a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically. (North pole, South pole)
- a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
- (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.
Declension
Inflection of pol | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pol | polen | poler | polerna |
Genitive | pols | polens | polers | polernas |
Related terms
- batteripol
- magnetpol
- nordpol
- polär
- polarcirkel
- polarexpedition
- polarforskning
- sydpol