palabra

From Spanish palabra (“word”)

palabra (plural palabras)

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): (poetic, rare) A word; idle talk.
   • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

     Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbor Verges.

• palaver
• parable
• parabola
• parlare (Italian, casual talk)
• polari (homosexual slang, urban English)

• OED 2nd edition 1989

palabra f (plural palabres)

1. Alternative form of pallabra

Borrowed from Spanish palabra, from Old Spanish parabla, from Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”). Doublet of parábola.

palabra

1. word (unit of speech or writing)

• Homophones: palabras, palabrât

palabra

1. third-person singular past historic of palabrer

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese palavra, with hyperthesis from earlier paravla, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; later, speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”). Doublet of parábola and parola.

• IPA^(key): /paˈlaβ̞ɾɐ/

palabra f (plural palabras)

1. word

   Synonyms: vocábulo, voz

2. promise
   • 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 381:

     mando que paguem a gomez ballo quanto el diser por sua palaura sem juramento quelle deuo

     I order that they should pay Gómez Ballo whatever he say by his word that I owe him, no oath needed

• termo

• “palavra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “palaura” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “palabra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “palabra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “palabra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hyperthetic form of Old Spanish parabla, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; later, speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”). Doublet of parábola, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /paˈlabɾa/, [paˈlaβɾa]
• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧bra

palabra f (plural palabras)

1. word

• → English: palabra
• → French: palabre
• → Papiamentu: palabra

• “palabra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.