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.
Palo, palas, palare. Columel. To hedge or pale in: to proppe vp with stakes.
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.