palio

Borrowed from French paille, Italian paglia, Spanish paja. Compare Esperanto pajlo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpali̯o/

palio (plural palii)

1. straw
2. chaff

Variant of pallio, from Latin pallium (“cloak; coverlet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ljo/
• Rhymes: -aljo
• Hyphenation: pà‧lio

palio m (plural pali)

1. a banner given as a prize in certain competitions
2. (by extension) the competition itself (il Palio di Siena-Siena horse race)
3. (archaic) cloth

• Palio

• opali, ploia

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“cloak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaljo/

palio m (plural palios)

1. cloak, robe
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v:

     Vino ioſep aſos ermanos. e priſierõ le ⁊ deſpoiarõle el palio. e echarõle en el pozo. ⁊ eſte pozo era bazio e non ẏauia agua.

     Joseph came to his brothers, and they took him and stripped him of his robe, and threw him into the pit. And this pit was empty, and there was no water there.

• Spanish: palio

palio

1. first-person singular present indicative of paliar

palio (Cyrillic spelling палио)

1. masculine singular active past participle of paliti

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaljo/ [ˈpa.ljo]
• Rhymes: -aljo
• Syllabification: pa‧lio

Inherited from Old Spanish palio, borrowed from Latin pallium.

palio m (plural palios)

1. pallium

palio

1. first-person singular present indicative of paliar

• “palio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024