pale

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See also: Pale, palé, pâle, palë, påle, palę, pałę, pale-, pâlé, and pále

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peɪl/, enPR: pāl
    • IPA(key): [pʰeɪ̯ɫ], [pʰeəɫ]
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  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophone: pail

Etymology 1

From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”).

Adjective

pale (comparative paler, superlative palest)

  1. Light in color.
    I have pale yellow wallpaper.
    She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
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      “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
  2. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
    His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎[2]:
      Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
  3. Feeble, faint.
    He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
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Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
    • 1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C. S. Francis & Co., published 1857, page 282:
      But a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spruce auto-vestments flowered with crocus-flames / There are, too, who believe in hell and lie :  […]
  2. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
    • 2006 September 14, Katie Hafner, “Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual”, in The New York Times‎[3]:
      Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year from Warren E. Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway.
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
      The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  3. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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Noun

pale

  1. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
    • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 589–592:
      The boare (quoth ſhe) whereat a ſuddain pale, / Like lawne being ſpred vpon the bluſhing roſe, / Vſurpes her cheeke, ſhe trembles at his tale, / And on his neck her yoaking armes ſhe throwes.

Etymology 2

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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English pale, pal, borrowed from Old French pal, from Latin pālus (“stake, prop”). Doublet of peel and pole. The word is also ultimately derived from Latin pālus (“stake, prop”), although English inherited pole (or, rather Old English pāl) from Proto-Germanic (being an old borrowing).

Noun

pale (plural pales)

  1. A wooden stake; a picket.
    • 1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,[4]
      […] if you deſign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot diſtance, ſet a Poſt with a Mortice in it to ſtand a little ſloping over the ſide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail […] and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when a Pale tumbles down.
  2. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
    • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,[5]
      How are we park’d and bounded in a pale,
      A little herd of England’s timorous deer,
      Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
    • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, London: William Welby, p. 13,[6]
      Fourthly, they ſhall not vpon any occaſion whatſoeuer breake downe any of our pales, or come into any of our Townes or forts by any other waies, iſſues or ports then ordinary [...].
  3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
    • 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, in The Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160:[7]
      But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light.
    • 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. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
  5. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
  6. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
    1. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
    2. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 402:
        He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.
      • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 73:
        A low-lying, marshy enclave stretching eighteen miles along the coast and pushing some eight to ten miles inland, the Pale of Calais nestled between French Picardy to the west and, to the east, the imperial-dominated territories of Flanders.
    3. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
  7. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
  8. A cheese scoop.[1]
  9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
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Verb

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  1. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
    • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
      […] your iſle, which ſtands / As Neptunes Parke, ribb’d, and pal’d in / With Oakes vnſkaleable, and roaring Waters, / With Sands that will not bear your Enemies Boates, / But ſuck them vp to th’ Top-maſt.

References

  1. ^ P. L. Simmonds, A Dictionary of Trade Products, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, London: Routledge, 1858, p. 272,[1]

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

pale

  1. plural of paal

Estonian

Noun

pale (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. cheek

Declension

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French

Etymology

From Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pale f (plural pales)

  1. blade (of a propeller etc)
  2. vane (of a windmill etc)

Further reading

Anagrams

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French parler (“talk, speak”)

Pronunciation

Verb

pale

  1. to talk, to speak
    • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎[9]:
      Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”
      American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to talk about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."

Italian

Noun

pale f

  1. plural of pala

Anagrams

Jakaltek

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish padre (“father”).

Noun

pale

  1. priest

References

Kurdish

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. worker

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē).

Pronunciation

Noun

palē f (genitive palēs); first declension

  1. a wrestling
Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative palē palae
Genitive palēs palārum
Dative palae palīs
Accusative palēn palās
Ablative palē palīs
Vocative palē palae

Etymology 2

Noun

(deprecated template usage) pāle

  1. vocative singular of pālus

References

  • “pale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pale”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Lindu

Noun

pale

  1. (anatomy) hand

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalɛ/, [ˈpalə]

Participle

pale

  1. third-person plural present of paliś

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”).

Adjective

pale m or f

  1. (Jersey) pale

Synonyms

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin pallidus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pale m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pale)

  1. pale, whitish or having little color

Descendants

  • English: pale
  • French: pâle
  • Norman: pale (Jersey)

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

pale m

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pal

Noun

pale m

  1. locative/vocative singular of pał

Noun

pale f

  1. dative/locative singular of pała

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

pale (Cyrillic spelling пале)

  1. third-person plural present of paliti

Swahili

Adjective

pale

  1. Pa class inflected form of -le.
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