pela

See also: pelá, pelà, pelâ, pêla, -pela, and pěla

English

Noun

pela (uncountable)

1. Chinese wax
   • 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Pantologia

     Thus we have the myrtle wax of America extracted from the berries of the myrica cerifera, and the pela of the Chinese.

Anagrams

• Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, pale, pale-, peal, plea

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Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition per (“by means of, by way of”) + feminine singular article la (“the”).

Contraction

pela f (masculine pel, neuter pelo, masculine plural pelos, feminine plural peles)

1. by means of the

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Catalan

Verb

pela

Noun

pela f (plural peles)

1. peseta

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French

Verb

pela

1. third-person singular past historic of peler

Anagrams

• Alep, lape, lapé, pale, pâle

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Galician

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *pilla, from Latin pilula (“pellet”). In that case, cognate with Spanish pella.

Alternative forms

• penla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

1. lump, dollop, mass (of butter, grease, lard)

Etymology 2

Back-formation from pelar (“to skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

1. peel
2. peeling (of skin)

Etymology 3

From Latin palella (“little shovel”), from pala (“shovel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

1. trowel; small shovel
   • 1373, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     Item enna cosina hua caldeyra de cobre con seus ferros et hua peella

     Item, in the kitchen a cooper cauldron with its irons [for hanging] and a spatula

2. vanes or blades of a water wheel

Etymology 4

From Latin per + illa.

Contraction

pela f sg (plural pelas, masculine pelo, masculine plural pelos)

2. contraction of por (“by; through”) and a (“the”) (archaic)

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “peella” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “pela” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Verb

pela

1. third-person singular present indicative of pelare
2. second-person singular imperative of pelare

Anagrams

• alpe, pale, Pale

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese pela, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *per (“by; through”) + *la (“the”).

Alternative forms

• pêla (superseded)
• pella (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.lɐ/

Contraction

pela f sg (plural pelas, masculine pelo, masculine plural pelos)

2. contraction of por (“by; through”) and a (“the”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of pelar (“to skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.lɐ/

Verb

pela

2. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

1. a hit or a beating
2. (colloquial) Peseta (former currency of Spain)

Related terms

• golpe
• paliza

Verb

pela

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pelar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pelar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pelar.