1. palleo — de Vaan
palleo 'to be pale' [v. II; plpallui\ (P1.+) Derivatives: pallescere 'to grow pale, fade' (Acc.+), pallidas 'pale, dim' (PI.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. palleo, p. 454]
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palleo
palleo
to be pale
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Where it lives
- Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
- Saturae 10 · 22.09/10k
- Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 3 · 13.95/10k
- Eclogues 4 · 8.81/10k
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
- de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
- de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
- Oedipus 3 · 5.06/10k
- Carmina 11 · 4.91/10k
- Thebais 29 · 4.64/10k
Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. pallĕo — Lewis & Short
pallĕo, ui, 2, v. n.Sanscr. palitas, gray; Gr. pello/s, pelidno/s, polio/s; cf. pullus,
I to be or look pale.
I Lit.:
sudat, pallet,Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 84:
pallent amisso sanguine venae,Ov. M. 2, 824:
metu sceleris futuri,id. ib. 8, 465:
timore,id. F. 2, 468:
mea rugosa pallebunt ora senectā,Tib. 3, 5, 25;
morbo,Juv. 2, 50:
fame,Mart. 3, 38, 12.— Esp. of lovers: palleat omnis amans;
hic est color aptus amanti,must look pale, Ov. A. A. 1, 729; Prop. 1, 9, 17.—Also through indolence, Mart. 3, 58, 24.—
B Transf.
1 To be or look sallow, or yellow:
saxum quoque palluit auro,Ov. M. 11, 110:
arca palleat nummis,Mart. 8, 44, 10; id. 9, 55, 1; so, to become turbid:
Tagus auriferis pallet turbatus arenis,Sil. 16, 561.—
2 To lose its natural color, to change color, to fade:
et numquam Herculeo numine pallet ebur,always remains white, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 82.
sidera pallent,Stat. Th. 12, 406:
ne vitio caeli palleat aegra seges,Ov. F. 1, 688:
pallet nostris Aurora venenis,id. M. 7, 209: pallere diem, Luc 7, 177—
(b) With acc.:
multos pallere colores,to change color often, Prop. 1, 15, 39.—
II Trop.
A To grow pale, be sick with desire, to long for, eagerly desire any thing:
ambitione malā aut argenti pallet amore,Hor. S. 2, 3, 78:
nummo,Pers. 4, 47.—
B To grow pale at any thing, to be anxious or fearful.—With dat.:
pueris,i. e. on account of, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7:
ad omnia fulgura,Juv. 13, 223:
Marco sub judice palles?Pers. 5, 8.—
(b) With acc.:
scatentem Belluis pontum,Hor. C. 3, 27, 26:
fraternos ictus,Petr. 122; Pers. 5, 184.—
C To grow pale by excessive application to a thing:
iratum Eupoliden praegrandi cum sene palles,read yourself pale over Eupolis, Pers. 1, 124:
nunc utile multis Pallere, i. e. studere,Juv. 7, 96:
vigilandum, nitendum, pallendum est,of close study, Quint. 7, 10, 14.—Hence, pallens, entis, P. a., pale, wan (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
A Lit.:
simulacra modis pallentia miris,Lucr. 1, 123:
umbrae Erebi,Verg. A. 4, 26:
animae,id. ib. 4, 242:
regna,of the Lower World, Sil. 13, 408; cf.
undae,i. e. the Styx, the Cocytus, Tib. 3, 5, 21:
persona,Juv. 3, 175:
pallens morte futurā,Verg. A. 8, 709:
pallentes terrore puellae,Ov. A. A. 3, 487. —
2 Transf.
a Of a faint or pale color, pale-colored, greenish, yellowish, darkcolored:
pallentes violae,Verg. E. 2, 47:
arva,Ov. M. 11, 145:
gemmā e viridi pallens,Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 110:
hedera,Verg. E. 3, 39:
herbae,id. ib. 6, 54:
lupini,Ov. Med. Fac. 69:
faba,Mart. 5, 78, 10:
sol jungere pallentes equos,Tib. 2, 5, 76:
toga,Mart. 9, 58, 8.—
b Poet., that makes pale:
morbi,Verg. A. 6, 275:
philtra,Ov. A. A. 2, 105:
curae,Mart. 11, 6, 6:
oscula,Val. Fl. 4, 701.—
B Trop., pale, weak, bad:
fama,pale, Tac. Or. 13 fin.:
mores,bad, vicious, Pers. 5, 15.
In the wild
- Pallentes Martial, Epigrammata 11.6.6
- pallentesque Ovid, Tristia 3.9.30
- pallet Martial, Epigrammata 3.58.24
- pallet Celsus, De Medicina 5.26.p35
- palluit Ovid, Fasti 5.514
- palleat Statius, Achilleis 1.872
6 of 270 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. palleo (scan p. 454; entry #1235).
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