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pol

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pol"

English

Etymology

Clipping of politician

Pronunciation

Noun

pol (plural pols)

  1. (informal) A politician.

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

Contraction

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

  1. for the, by the

Catalan

Noun

pol m or f (plural pols)

  1. pole
    el pol Sud ― the South Pole
    pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

Danish

 
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Noun

pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)

  1. a bundle of plants, with the soil it stands on or that hangs from it
  2. (Belgium) a hand

Derived terms

Extremaduran

Preposition

pol

  1. by
    Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.
    This book was written by Gabriel García Márquez.
  2. through
  3. for

Irish

Etymology

From Middle French pole, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

  1. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

Declension

Declension of pol

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pol poil
Vocative a phoil a phola
Genitive poil pol
Dative pol poil

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an pol na poil
Genitive an phoil na bpol
Dative leis an bpol

don phol

leis na poil

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pol phol bpol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

Interjection

pol

  1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
    • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina
      Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?
      Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?

See also

References

  • “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pol in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)

Norwegian Bokmål

 
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Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

 
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived terms

References

Old English

Etymology

West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

Pronunciation

Noun

pōl m

  1. pool

Declension

Declension of pol (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative pol polas
accusative pol polas
genitive poles pola
dative pole polum

Descendants

  • English: pool

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Pronunciation

Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)
Declension
Declension of pol
singular plural
nominative pȏl pólovi
genitive pola pólōvā
dative polu polovima
accusative pol polove
vocative pole polovi
locative polu polovima
instrumental polom polovima
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
  2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender
Declension
Declension of pol
singular plural
nominative pol polovi
genitive pola polova
dative polu polovima
accusative pol polove
vocative pole polovi
locative polu polovima
instrumental polom polovima
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From pȍla.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Particle

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. (Croatia) half
    sat i pol ― an hour and a half
    tri i pol mjeseca ― three and a half months

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pol c

  1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically. (North pole, South pole)
  2. a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
  3. (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

Declension

Declension of pol 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pol polen poler polerna
Genitive pols polens polers polernas
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