palica

From Proto-Slavic *palica (“stick, staff”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian palica (“clapper”), Polish pałka (“club, cudgel”), Czech palice (“mallet”), Old Church Slavonic палица (palica, “stick, staff”), Russian па́лица (pálica, “club, cudgel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.li.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -alit͡sa
• Syllabification: pa‧li‧ca

palica f (diminutive palicka)

1. clapper (object suspended inside a bell that causes it to ring)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “palica”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “palica”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From palec +‎ -ica.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): [paˈli.t͡sa]

palica f

1. (Chełmno) mitten; glove (hand covering with one or more fingers)

• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887), “palica”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 137

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *palica.

• IPA^(key): /pâlit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧li‧ca

pȁlica f (Cyrillic spelling па̏лица)

1. bat
2. rod
3. cane

• “palica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Old Slovak palica, from Proto-Slavic *palica.

• IPA^(key): /paʎit͡sa/, (high register) [ˈpaʎit͡sa], (common) [ˈpalit͡sa]
• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Hyphenation: pa‧li‧ca

palica f (relational adjective palicový, diminutive palička)

1. stick; cane; bat (long, straight, thin piece of wood)
2. (historical) thrashing (punishment by beating with a cane)

• “palica”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026