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palea

chaff, husk

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 32 · 4.07/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 33 · 0.83/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. palea — de Vaan

palea 'chaff, husk' [f. a] (Cato+) Derivatives: uncertain are palea 'the wattles of a cock' (Varro-»-), palear, -aris [n.] 'dewlap' (Varro+). Pit. +pcdeja- [f.]. PIE *p(e)lhr 'chaff. IE cognates: Skt. palava- 'chaff, husk' < *pelH-ou(-), OPr. pelwo, Lith. pelus, Latv. ρςlus [pi.] 'chaff, OCS plevy [nom.pl.f ], Ru, polova, SCr. — [de Vaan, s.v. palea, p. 454]

2. pălĕa — Lewis & Short

pălĕa, ae, f.kindred with Sanscr. pala, stramen; cf.: pollen, pulvis, palu/nw,

I chaff, Varr. R. R. 1, 50 fin.: surgentem ad Zephyrum paleae jactantur inanes, Verg. G. 3, 134; Plin. 18, 30, 72, § 297; Col. 2, 9, 15; 6, 2, 3; 7, 3, 22 al.; Vulg. Matt. 3, 12.—

II Transf.

A Dross: palea aeris, Plin. 34, 13, 36, § 134. —

B The wattles or gills of a cock, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 5; Col. 8, 2, 9.—

C Straw, Vulg. Judic. 19, 19; id. Isa. 11, 7.

3. palea — Walde–Hofmann

palea, -ae f. ,Getreidehülse, Spreu; Stroh“ (diese Bed. schon in klass. Zeit, Labhardt Festschr. Jud 222ff); „Erzschaum; das rote Läppchen unter dem Schnabel des Hahnes* (seit Cato, rom., ebenso paleüre n. ,Spreuhaufen* Cl. [paleäris „zur Spreu gehörig* seit Aug., Subst. „Art Dornstrauch* Orib., Svennung. Wortst. 104], paleafus, -a, -um „mit Spreu vermischt" und paleärium n. „Spreuhaufen“ seit Colum.), palear, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. palea, p. 1144]

In the wild

paleae Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 3.20
paleae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.30.2
paleis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.6.22
paleis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.29.p3
paleam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.30.p1
paleas Cato, De agri cultura 128

6 of 95 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. palea (scan p. 454; entry #1232).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. palea (scan p. 1144; entry #1937). Root candidates: *pel-.

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