Pala, huius palæ, f. g. Plin. A spade or shouell. Pala. Cato. A peele to put bread into an ouen: a fire panne or shouel. Palæ. Strabo. Small sherdes of golde tried. Pala annuli. Cicero. The broad parte of the ring where the stone is set.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pāla, ae, f. [contr. from pagela, from pago, pango: pala a pangendo, Varr. L. L. 5, 134 Müll.], a spade.I.Lit.: palas vendundas sibi ait ... ut hortum fodiat, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 58: sarcula VIII., palas IV., Cato, R. R. 10, 3: palae innixus, Liv. 3, 26: juncosus ager verti pala debet, Plin. 18, 6, 8, 46: palis laxatus, id. 17, 17, 27, 123; Col. 10, 45.—II.Transf.A.A peel for putting bread into the oven, Cato, R. R. 11 fin.—B.A winnowing-shovel, Tert. Praescr. 3; so Juvenc. 1, 371.—C.The bezel of a ring = funda: palam anuli ad palmam convertere, Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38.—D.The shoulder-blade, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 35; id. Tard. 3, 2.—E.An Indian tree, the plantain-tree: Musa Paradisiaca, Linn.; Plin. 12, 6, 12, 24.