palissade

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French palissade, from Old French, probably from Old Occitan palissada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.liˈsaː.də/, /ˌpaː.lɪˈsaː.də/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pa‧lis‧sa‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

palissade f (plural palissaden or palissades)

1. palisade, fence made of wooden stakes

Descendants

• → Indonesian: palisade
• → Sranan Tongo: prasara
  • → Caribbean Javanese: plasarah

French

Etymology

From palis +‎ -ade, or from Old French, borrowed from Old Occitan palissada. Ultimately from a derivative of Latin palus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

palissade f (plural palissades)

1. fence, palisade
2. stockade

Descendants

• → Dutch: palissade (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: палиса́да (palisáda), палиса́д (palisád)

Further reading

• “palissade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.