pale

Signification (English)

1. Light in color.
2. Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
3. Feeble, faint.

turn pale

grow pale

be pallid

become pale

grow dim

light-colored

light green

fair complexion

be wan

be colourless

be gaunt

be haggard

lose its lustre

having no splendour

pale-white

palewhite

without beauty

faint-colored

of a yellow complexion

grayish-white

light-duty

pale-colored

pale-hued

be blanched

be palefaced

be nothing

thin weak

diluted colour

light-yellow

become dull

deathly pale

pasty-faced

become white

light-haired

lose color

pale-faced

saffron-colored

turn white

yellowish-white

light color

growing light

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/peɪl/

Inherited from moyen anglais

pale

Cognate with ancien anglais

pāl

In summary

From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“I am pale; I grow pale; I fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.

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