pale

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Adjective 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 Related terms 1.5 Anagrams 2 Estonian 2.1 Noun 3 French 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.3 Anagrams 4 Haitian Creole 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Verb 5 Italian 5.1 Noun 6 Kurdish 6.1 Noun 7 Swahili 7.1 Adverb

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: pāl, SAMPA: /peIl/
• IPA: /peɪɫ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophones: pail

[edit] Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin pallidus (“‘pale, pallid’”).

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pale (comparative paler, superlative palest)

1. light in color.

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[edit] Verb

to pale (third-person singular simple present pales, present participle paling, simple past and past participle paled)

1. (intransitive) To become pale. To become insignificant.

   2006 New York Times Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, ...

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[edit] Etymology 2

Latin pālus (“‘stake, prop’”).

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pale (plural pales)

1. A wooden stake.
2. (archaic) A fence, especially one made from wooden stakes.
3. (by extension) limits, bounds (especially with of)
   • 1900, Jack London, Son of the Wolf:The Wisdom of the Trail:

   Men so situated, beyond the pale of the honor and the law, are not to be trusted.

   • 1919, B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:When and Whom to Marry:

   All things considered, we advise the male reader to keep his desires in check till he is at least twenty-five, and the female not to enter the pale of wedlock until she has attained the age of twenty.

4. (archaic) A territory or defensive area that one nation holds in another country, e.g., Britain’s medieval control of Calais in France or Dublin in Ireland.
5. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
6. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
7. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

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• impale
• palisade
• pallescent

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• Alphagram: aelp
• leap
• peal
• plea

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[edit] Estonian

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pale

1. cheek

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin pāla (“‘shovel, spade’”).

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pale

1. blade

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• Alphagram: aelp
• Alep
• pela

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[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French parler (“‘talk, speak’”)

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pale

1. talk, speak

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[edit] Italian

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pale

1. Plural form of pala.

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[edit] Kurdish

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pale

1. worker

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[edit] Swahili

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pale

1. there