palea

Borrowed from Latin palea (“chaff”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪə/, /ˈpeɪlɪə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪə/, /ˈpeɪlɪə/

palea (plural paleae or pales)

1. (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
2. (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
   • 1917, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, A Monograph of the Genus Brickellia:

     In a single Brazilian species, doubtfully referred to Brickellia, a few pales occur toward the edge of the disk.

• “palea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• palae, palae-, palæ-

From Proto-Italic *palejā (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- (“chaff”); the original meaning of the Proto-Indo-European appears to be "to swing", with the "chaff" meaning being a semantic extension from "to swing" > "to thresh corn" > "the chaff separated from the fruit by threshing action". Cognate with Sanskrit पलाव (palāva, “chaff”), Old Church Slavonic плева (pleva), Russian полова (polova), Lithuanian pelus, Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to swing, sway”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.le.a/, [ˈpäɫ̪eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.le.a/, [ˈpäːleä]

palea f (genitive paleae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) chaff.
2. The wattles or gills of a cock.
3. dross
4. husk
5. straw

First-declension noun.

• (chaff): pillō (Mediaeval)

• “palea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• palea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “palea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 802

• IPA^(key): /paˈlea/ [paˈle.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: pa‧le‧a

palea

1. inflection of palear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative