The corpus record — Latin

palus

palus · m

a stake

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, fragments 1 · 47.62/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Pescennius Niger 2 · 8.78/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.57/10k
Maximini Duo 4 · 7.37/10k
Probus 3 · 7.28/10k
De bello Gallico 33 · 6.43/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 7 · 5.53/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3 · 5.44/10k
Georgicon 7 · 4.95/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 3 · 4.45/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k

Densest 12 of 103 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pālus — Lewis & Short

pālus, i, m. (

I neutr. collat. form pālum, i, Varr. ap. Non. 219, 18) [for paglus (cf. dim. paxillus); root pag-; Sanscr. pācas, snare; Gr. ph/gnumi, fasten; Lat. pango; cf.: pignus, pax], a stake, prop, stay, pale.

I Lit. (very freq. and class.; syn.: sudes, stipes): ut figam palum in parietem, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 4; id. Men. 2, 3, 53: damnati ad supplicium traditi, ad palum alligati, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 5, § 11: palis adjungere vitem, Tib. 1, 8 (7), 33; Ov. F. 1, 665: palos et ridicas dolare, Col. 11, 2, 11; Varr. 1. 1.—The Roman soldiers learned to fight by attacking a stake set in the ground, Veg. Mil. 1, 11; 2, 23; hence, aut quis non vidit vulnera pali? Juv. 6, 246.—And, transf.: exerceamur ad palum: et, ne imparatos fortuna deprehendat, fiat nobis paupertas familiaris, Sen. Ep. 18, 6. should be 18.8 —In the lang. of gladiators, palus primus or palusprimus (called also machaera Herculeana, Capitol. Pert. 8), a gladiator's sword of wood, borne by the secutores, whence their leader was also called primus palus, Lampr. Commod. 15; Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 694.—Prov.: quasi palo pectus tundor, of one astonished, stunned, Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 2.—

II Transf., = membrum virile, Hor. S. 1, 8, 5.

2. pălus — Lewis & Short

pălus, ūdis (

I nom. sing. pălŭs, Hor. A. P. 65; but usually pălūs, Verg. A. 6, 107; v. infra; gen. plur. paludum, Caes. B. G. 4, 38, 2 Oud.; rarely paludium, Liv. 21, 54, 7 Drak.; Plin. 2, 68, 68, § 174; Just. 44, 1, 10; Eum. Pan. Const. Aug. 12, 2), f. = Gr. phlo/s, mud; cf. Sanscr. palvala, pool; perh. -ud of the stem = u(/dwr, water, a swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, pool (cf.: stagnum, lacus).

I Lit.: ille paludes siccare voluit, Cic. Phil. 5, 3, 7: paludes emere, id. Agr. 2, 27, 71: palus erat non magna inter nostrum atque hostium exercitum, Caes. B. G. 2, 9: propter paludes exercitui aditus non est, id. ib. 2, 16: Cocyti tardāque palus inamabilis undā, Verg. G. 4, 479: sterilisve diu palus aptaque remis, Hor. A. P. 65: udae paludes intumuere aestu, Ov. M. 1, 737: stagnata paludibus ument, id. ib. 15, 269: nigra, Tib. 3, 3, 37: exusta, Verg. G. 3, 432: alta, id. ib. 4, 48: putida, Cat. 17, 10: nebulosa, Sil. 8, 382: sordida, Stat. S. 4, 3, 8.—Hence, Palus Maeotis, = Lacus Maeotis, now the Sea of Azof, Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168; Mel. 1, 19.—

II Transf.

A A reed that grows in marshes: tomentum concisa palus Circense vocatur, Mart. 14, 160, 1; 11, 32, 2.—

B Water: (cymba) multam accepit rimosa paludem, Verg. A. 6, 414.

In the wild

palude Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.13.5
paludibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.6
paludem Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.3.5
paludibus Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.324
paludes Tacitus, Annales 1.p69
paludibus Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.269

6 of 395 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. palus (scan p. 502; entry #8148).

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