pallo

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlːo/, [ˈpɑ̝lːo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːo
• Syllabification^(key): pal‧lo

pallo

1. ball, orb, sphere, globe (spherical object)
2. (mathematics) sphere (see usage notes)
3. (mathematics, now informal) ball (see usage notes)
4. Ellipsis of ilmapallo (“balloon”).

In mathematics, the term in informal use is mostly used interchangeably for sphere (the cross sections of which are circles) and ball (the cross sections of which are disks), although most authors usually use the term for only one of these concepts in literature, with an increasing tendency to use pallo to mean "sphere" and kuula to mean "ball" (further distinction may be made with pallopinta for the former).

• “pallo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• polla

Ultimately from a Germanic language. Related to Finnish pallo and, more distantly, Estonian pall.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlːo/, [ˈpɑɫːŏ̞̥]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlːo/, [ˈpɑɫːo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːo
• Hyphenation: pal‧lo

pallo

1. ball, sphere
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 100:

     Silmä ono melkeen pallon formaa.

     An eye is almost the shape of a sphere.

2. (botany) seedhead
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:

     Jos katsoa [maitokukan] pöyhkiää harmaata palloa, kumpa tuli keltaisen kukan sihalle, ni siis näkkyy, jot se ono tekahunt pikkaraisist eri plodikoist, kumpiil ono pitkä jalka ja jalan otsaas pöyhkiä zontikka (kuva 1).

     If you look at [the dandelion's] fluffy, grey seedhead, which came at the place of the yellow flower, then it's seen, that it has formed from various tiny fruits, which have a long spur and at the end of the spur a fluffy achene (image 1)

• Syllabification: pa‧llo

pallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pallar