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English

Etymology

Middle English palate, from Latin pal?tum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæl.?t/
• Rhymes: -æl?t

Noun

palate (plural palates)

1. (anatomy) The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates. [from 14th c.]

   Synonym: uraniscus

   Hyponyms: hard palate, soft palate

   1. (zoology) A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analagous to the palate of vertebrates. [from 20th c.]
   2. (entomology, rare) The hypopharynx of an insect. [from 19th c.]
   3. (botany) A projection in the throat of certain bilabiate flowers as the snapdragon. [from 18th c.]
   4. (cooking, historical) The palate of an animal, as an item of food. [from 17th c.]
2. (figuratively) A person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors. [from 14th c.]
3. (figuratively) Mental relish; a liking or affinity for something. [from 15th c.]
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4. Taste or flavour, especially with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

• palatal (adjective)

Related terms

• palatine (adjective)

Translations

Verb

palate (third-person singular simple present palates, present participle palating, simple past and past participle palated)

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.

   Synonym: stomach

Derived terms

• palatable (adjective)

References

• “palate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “palate”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Platea, leap at, paleta, patela, petala

Italian

Noun

palate f

1. plural of palata

Verb

palate

1. inflection of palare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of palato

Anagrams

• pelata
• platea

Latin

Verb

p?l?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of p?l?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• palet, palat, palette, palete

Etymology

From Old French palat, from Latin pal?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?palat/, /?pal?t/

Noun

palate

1. The palate; the top of the mouth (including the uvula).
2. One's sense of taste (the palate was believed to be the source of this).

Descendants

• English: palate

References

• “palat(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

Romanian

Noun

palate n pl

1. plural of palat

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/, /?pæl?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/
• Rhymes: -æl?t
• Homophones: palate, palette, pallette

Etymology 1

From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr. Doublet of palette.

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Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
2. (military) A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment.
3. (military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

Derived terms

• palletainer
• palletizer

Translations

Verb

pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted)

1. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Etymology 2

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. A straw bed.
2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin palla (“to cut”), hence “a strip of cloth”.

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe. Diminutive of pale.

Etymology 4

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (painting) Archaic form of palette.
   • 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter

     The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"

   • 1860, Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)

     For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]

2. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
3. A potter's wheel.
4. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
5. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
6. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

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7. (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
8. (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

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9. (horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.

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10. (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
11. (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
12. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
• Notes:

Anagrams

• L-plate, laplet, platel

Dutch

Etymology

From English pallet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l?t/
• Homophone: pellet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

pallet m (plural pallets, diminutive palletje n)

1. pallet

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pallet.

Noun

pallet m (plural pallet)

1. pallet

Latin

Verb

pallet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of palle?