palla

See also: pallá

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian palla (“ball”).

Noun

palla (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Tuscan ball game played in the street.

Etymology 2

Latin . pall (“a cloak”).

Noun

palla (plural pallae)

  1. (historical) A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

Further reading

Aymara

Noun

palla

  1. woman

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin palea.

Noun

palla f (plural palles)

  1. straw

Galician

Palla

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese palla (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palea. Cognate with Portuguese palha and Spanish paja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaʎa̝/

Noun

palla f (plural pallas)

  1. (countable) a straw
  2. (uncountable) straw
    • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:
      Jtem. deue o potro comer feo, palla, herua, orio, auea, espelqa, que quer dizer melga, et as qousas semellauelles a esto, que naturalmente som para seu comer.
      Item. The foal must eat hay, straw, grass, barley, oat, spelt —that is, melga— and things that are similar to these, which are naturally for them to eat

Derived terms

References

  • “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “palla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “palla” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “palla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingue

Noun

palla (plural pallas)

  1. spade, shovel

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Germanic.

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

  1. ball
  2. bullet, shot
  3. testicle
  4. (by extension) an arduous and/or boring undertaking or event.
    Che palla!
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”). See also Latin pellis.

Noun

palla f (genitive pallae); first declension

  1. A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative palla pallae
genitive pallae pallārum
dative pallae pallīs
accusative pallam pallās
ablative pallā pallīs
vocative palla pallae

References

  • palla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • palla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • palla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palla in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Quechua

Noun

palla

  1. lady, respected woman
  2. female dancer

Declension

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin palea.

Noun

palla f

  1. (Campidanese) straw

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Italian palla (“ball”), see above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalːa/
  • Hyphenation: pal‧la

Noun

palla f (plural palli)

  1. ball

Spanish

Verb

palla

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pallar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pallar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of pallar.
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