polus

See also: Polus, poļus, pólus, and πολύς

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.lus]

Noun

polus m (genitive polī); second declension

1. pole (an extreme point of an axis)
2. sky, the heavens

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	polus	polī
genitive	polī	polōrum
dative	polō	polīs
accusative	polum	polōs
ablative	polō	polīs
vocative	pole	polī

Descendants

• → Italian: polo
• → Catalan: pol
• → Old French: pole
  • Middle French: pole
    • French: pôle
    • Norman: pôle (Jersey)
    • → Dutch: pool
    • → English: pole
• → Galician: polo
• → German: Pol
• → Norwegian: pol
• → Occitan: pòl
• → Portuguese: polo
• → Russian: полюс (poljus)
• → Spanish: polo

References

• “polus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “polus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “polus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “polus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “polus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “polus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “polus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Anagrams

• pulsō

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Eastern Kraków) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.lus]

Noun

polus m pers

1. (Eastern Kraków) synonym of urwis

Further reading

• Błażej Pawłowicz (1892), “polus”, in “Wyrazy gwarowe z okolic Tarnowa”, in Prace Filologiczne‎ (in Polish), volume 4, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 308