palette

n. 调色板；颜料

n. (Palette)人名；(法)帕莱特

中文词源

palette 调色板

来自拉丁语pala,铲，铁锹，可能缩写自patella,小盘子，来自patina的小词形式，词源同pan,patella,paddle.后用于指绘画时用的调色板，因形如小铁铲而得名。-ette,小词后缀。

palette (n.): 1620s, "flat thin tablet used by an artist to lay and mix colors," from French palette, from Old French palete "small shovel, blade" (13c.) diminutive of pale "shovel, blade," from Latin pala "spade, shoulder blade," probably from PIE *pak-slo-, from root *pag- (see pact). Transferred sense of "colors used by a particular artist" is from 1882.

1、pal- "stake, wooden post" + -ette.2、原始含义：flat wooden blade.

3. David Fincher paints from a palette consisting almost exclusively of grey and mud brown.: 戴维·芬彻几乎只用灰色和土褐色作画。

4. Various dry , muddy smears on the palette confirmed this statement.: 调色板上乱七八糟的污痕证实了这句话.