palisade

See also: Palisade

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly a from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

palisade (plural palisades)

1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
2. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
4. (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

Derived terms

• palisade worm
• palisadic

Translations

long, strong stake with sharpened head

• Finnish: paalu (fi), teroitettu paalu
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wall of wooden stakes

• Catalan: palissada f
• Dutch: palissade (nl) f
• Estonian: pihtaed
• Finnish: paaluaita, paaluvarustus, palisadi (fi)
• French: palissade (fr) f
• German: Palisade (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: χάραξ f (khárax)

• Italian: palizzata (it) f
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• Latin: vallum n, vallus m, sublica f
• Macedonian: палиса́да f (palisáda)
• Maori: takitaki, tātākaitaua, pātūtū, pekerangi, kiritangata, awhikiri, hukahuka, kereteki, tīwatawata, pīwatawata, reu, wītā
• Polish: palisada (pl) f, częstokół m, ostrokół (pl) m
• Portuguese: paliçada (pt)
• Romanian: palisadă (ro) f, palancă (ro) f
• Russian: палиса́д (ru) m (palisád), частоко́л (ru) m (častokól)
• Spanish: palizada f

a line of cliffs

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Verb

1. (transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French palissade.

Noun

palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)

1. palisade (stick)
2. palisade (wall of sticks)

Declension

Declension of palisade

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	palisade	palisaden	palisader	palisaderne
genitive	palisades	palisadens	palisaders	palisadernes

References

• “palisade” in Den Danske Ordbog