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palam

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See also: pałam and Palam

Latin

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Etymology 1

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Either:

all from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat).

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic полѥ (polje) (whence Bulgarian and Russian поле (pole, field)), Old Armenian հող (hoł, earth, soil), German West-falen.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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palam (not comparable)

  1. without concealment, openly, publicly, undisguisedly, plainly, unambiguously
    Synonyms: publice, apertē, vulgō
    Antonym: clam
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Italian: palese
  • Catalan: palès

Preposition

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palam (+ ablative)

  1. openly in the presence of someone, openly before someone

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pālam

  1. accusative singular of pāla

References

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  • palam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • palam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare