palo

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

• Hyphenation: pa‧lo
• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/ [ˈpa.l̪o]

pálo

1. post (on a fence)
2. stake

   Synonym: sugyang

Inherited from Spanish palo (“stick”), from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaloʔ/, [ˈpa.loʔ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧lo

palò

1. wood
2. tree

From Proto-Finnic *palo, equivalent to palaa (“to burn”) +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/, [ˈpɑ̝lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧lo

palo

1. (a) fire (event of something burning, an occurrence of fire)

   Jotkut kemikaalipalot ovat hankalia sammuttaa.

   Some chemical fires are difficult to put out.

2. ardor (great warmth of feeling)

   tunteen palo ― fervor, passion (lit. fire of feeling)

3. (baseball, pesäpallo) out
4. (cricket) dismissal
5. (agriculture, historical, dialectal) swidden, area cleared by slash-and-burn cultivation; especially a fresh swidden that has not yet been sown

• (fire): tulipalo

• “palo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑloˣ/, [ˈpɑ̝lo̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧lo

palo

1. inflection of paloa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Alpo, lapo, pola

From Proto-Finnic *palo, equivalent to pallaa (“to burn”) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish palo and Estonian palu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/, [ˈpɑɫo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/, [ˈpɑɫo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: pa‧lo

palo

1. fire (event of something burning)

Declension of palo (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	palo	palot
genitive	palon	palloin, paloloin
partitive	palloa	paloja, paloloja
illative	palloo	palloi, paloloihe
inessive	palos	palois, palolois
elative	palost	paloist, paloloist
allative	palolle	paloille, paloloille
adessive	palol	paloil, paloloil
ablative	palolt	paloilt, paloloilt
translative	paloks	paloiks, paloloiks
essive	palonna, palloon	paloinna, paloloinna, palloin, paloloin
exessive1)	palont	paloint, paloloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 380

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: pà‧lo

From Latin pālus, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

palo m (plural pali)

1. stake, pole, pile, spar
2. (soccer) goalpost
3. (heraldry) pale
4. (slang) lookout (person on watch)

   fare il palo ― to stand guard (literally, “to be a lookout”)

5. (slang) €1000

• impalare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palare

• Lapo, Pola, aplo-, oplà

palo

1. sea

• Michael Dürr, “Einführung in das kolonialzeitliche K’iche’ (Quiché)”

palo

1. flying squirrel

From pālus (“stake”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.lo]

pālō (present infinitive pālāre, perfect active pālāvī, supine pālātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to support with stakes, pales or props, prop up

• “palo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

palo (Cyrillic spelling пало)

1. neuter singular active past participle of pȁsti

Inherited from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. Cognate with English pole and pale (“fence post”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/ [ˈpa.lo]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

palo m (plural palos)

1. stake, stick, wood

   Mamá, me pegó con un palo.

   Mom, he hit me with a stick.

2. (card games) suit

   Las barajas suelen tener cuatro palos.

   Decks usually have four suits.

3. hit, blow, strike (especially, with a stick)
4. (figurative) blow
5. (nautical) mast (a tall, slim post or tower used to support the sails on a ship)

   Synonyms: mástil, árbol

6. (sports) post; goalpost; woodwork
7. (historical) execution by hanging or beheading
9. (music) style (of flamenco)
10. (colloquial, El Salvador) tree

    Ella está por el palo de hule.

    She's by the rubber tree.

11. (slang, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) shot (a small serving of alcoholic spirits)

    Synonyms: trago, chupito

    Sírvame un palo de ron.

    Get me a shot of rum.

12. (vulgar, Latin America) penis

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
corazones	diamantes	picas	tréboles

• asta
• pilar

• “palo”, 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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palu, from Proto-Austronesian *palu (cf. Malay palu (“hammer”)). Some writers (e.g. English 1985) treat this as a borrowing from Spanish palo (“stick, cudgel”), but it is most likely a chance resemblance.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaloʔ/ [ˈpaː.loʔ]
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

palò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓ)

1. stroke with the hand or a stick, usually as punishment; spank

   Synonyms: gulpi, hampas

Borrowed from Spanish palo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpalo/ [ˈpaː.lo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: pa‧lo

palo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓ)

1. (nautical) mast

   Synonym: puliagan

• palo-sebo

• “palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*palu₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Finnic *palo, equivalent to palada +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish palo.

palo

1. destructive fire, conflagration

Inflection of palo (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	palo
genitive sing.	palon
partitive sing.	palod
partitive plur.	paloid
	singular	plural
nominative	palo	palod
accusative	palon	palod
genitive	palon	paloiden
partitive	palod	paloid
essive-instructive	palon	paloin
translative	paloks	paloikš
inessive	palos	paloiš
elative	palospäi	paloišpäi
illative	palho paloho	paloihe
adessive	palol	paloil
ablative	palolpäi	paloilpäi
allative	palole	paloile
abessive	palota	paloita
comitative	palonke	paloidenke
prolative	palodme	paloidme
approximative I	palonno	paloidenno
approximative II	palonnoks	paloidennoks
egressive	palonnopäi	paloidennopäi
terminative I	palhosai palohosai	paloihesai
terminative II	palolesai	paloilesai
terminative III	palossai	—
additive I	palhopäi palohopäi	paloihepäi
additive II	palolepäi	paloilepäi

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.l̪o/

palo

1. sibling-in-law of the opposite gender

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[3], Pacific linguistics