Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Light in color. · Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). · Feeble, faint.
verb
To turn pale; to lose colour. · To become insignificant. · To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryPaleness; pallor.
Etymology tree Latin palleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin pallidus Old French palebor. Middle English pale English pale From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“to be pale; to grow pale; to fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.
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