polus

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.lus]

polus m (genitive polī); second declension

1. pole (an extreme point of an axis)
2. sky, the heavens

Second-declension noun.

• “polus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “polus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “polus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “polus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “polus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “polus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• pulsō

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• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Eastern Kraków) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lus/

polus m pers

1. (Eastern Kraków) synonym of urwis

• Błażej Pawłowicz (1892) “polus”, in “Wyrazy gwarowe z okolic Tarnowa”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 308