• PALE

1. s. palus (general term for any pole; e.g., a hedge-stake, especially for fastening anything to; e.g., a vine); sudes (shaped and pointed at the top). ☞ Stipes and vallus were larger stakes, which required to be driven in.

2. v. (To fence with pales), stipitibus sepire (e.g., ut locus... stipitibus robustis sepiatur; Inscript., Orell., 642); or *sudibus stipitibusque (Caes.): sepire. ☞ Not palare, which is only found in the sense of “staking” vines, etc., and “driving in piles” for a foundation.

3. adj., pallidus: luridus (of a yellow paleness in a bad sense): exsanguis (without any blood in the face, from fear, rage, etc): cadaverosus (cadaverous). As pale as a corpse, cadaverosa facie: somewhat pale, subpallidus; pallens: very pale, perpallidus, exsanguis: to grow pale, pallescere, expallescere, exalbescere: he became red at one moment, and pale at another, modo erubuit, modo expalluit: to be pale, pallere.