polus

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lus/, [ˈpɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lus/, [ˈpɔːlus]

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
• “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