Noun: palo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: pa‧lo
| Singular m | palo |
| Plural m | palos |
Sample Sentences
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Mamá, me pegó con un palo. (Mom, he hit me with a stick.)
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Las barajas suelen tener cuatro palos. (Decks usually have four suits.)
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Ella está por el palo de hule. (She's by the rubber tree.)
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Sírvame un palo de ron. (Get me a shot of rum.)
Nouns inflected like palo
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. Cognate with English pole and pale (“fence post”). Compare the vulgar reference to the penis with Portuguese pau. See: Latin Nouns '
pālus', Latin Nouns '
pālus', English Nouns '
pole'.
Verbs referencing "palo"
Galician Nouns
pau, Portuguese Nouns
pau.
Translations