pala

/ˈpala/ · B2 · noun · f

shovel

🪏 Latin pala = spade; English palette comes from its diminutive

Spanish kept the Latin word pala, spade, unchanged. Italian paletta, little shovel, became the painter's palette in English. Pala also means any flat blade: the end of an oar, a ping-pong paddle, the upper of a shoe.

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