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palaga

palaga

Latin

Noun

palaga f ‎(genitive palagae); first declension

An ingot or nugget of gold.
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.11.77
  palagas alii palacurnas iidem quod minutum est balucem vocant
  The names given to these lumps are "palagae," and "palacurnae," while the gold found in small grains is known as "baluce."

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	palaga	palagae
genitive	palagae	palagārum
dative	palagae	palagīs
accusative	palagam	palagās
ablative	palagā	palagīs
vocative	palaga	palagae

Synonyms

(ingot of gold): palacurna

References

palaga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “palaga”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.