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See also: Palma, pálma, palmá, Pálma, palmã, and palmă

English

Etymology

From Portuguese and Spanish palma. Doublet of palm, palmo, and pam.

Noun

palma (plural palmas)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Portuguese and Spanish units of length.

See also

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin palma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalma/,
  • Rhymes: -alma
  • Hyphenation: pal‧ma

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

  1. palm (inner, concave part of hand)
  2. palm leaf

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.

Pronunciation

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

  1. palm tree
    Synonyms: palmera, palmer
  2. palm leaf
  3. palm of the hand
    Synonym: palmell

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Czech

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Pronunciation

Noun

palma f (related adjective palmový)

  1. palm (tropical tree)

Declension

Declension of palma (hard feminine reducible)
singular plural
nominative palma palmy
genitive palmy palem
dative palmě palmám
accusative palmu palmy
vocative palmo palmy
locative palmě palmách
instrumental palmou palmami

Further reading

  • palma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • palma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese palma (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

  1. (anatomy) palm (of the handl)
  2. (usually in the plural) claps
  3. palm tree
    Synonym: palmeira
  4. palm leaf

Related terms

References

  • “palma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “palma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “palma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “palma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “palma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/
  • Rhymes: -alma
  • Hyphenation: pàl‧ma

Noun

palma f (plural palme)

  1. palm tree, palm
  2. palm (of the hand)
  3. palm (corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal)

Related terms

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

palma manūs (palm of the hand)
palma (palm tree)

From Proto-Italic *palamā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē), Old Irish lám, Old English folm, and Albanian shpall.

Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

  1. palm of the hand, hand
    Synonym: palmus
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.93–94:
      ingemit, et duplicīs tendēns ad sīdera palmās
      tālia vōce refert: .
      Groaning, and extending both hands to the stars, responds with such an expression : .
      (Facing imminent death at sea, Aeneas invokes the gods, raising his hands with the palms facing upward as if to receive divine blessing.)
  2. blade of an oar
  3. palm tree; date tree
  4. (figuratively) victory
  5. (Medieval Latin) a linear measure, palm, of various exact values throughout Europe but usually one quarter of the local foot.
    Synonym: (Classical Latin) palmus
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative palma palmae
Genitive palmae palmārum
Dative palmae palmīs
Accusative palmam palmās
Ablative palmā palmīs
Vocative palma palmae
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma.

Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of parma (“small shield”)
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative palma palmae
Genitive palmae palmārum
Dative palmae palmīs
Accusative palmam palmās
Ablative palmā palmīs
Vocative palma palmae

References

  • “palma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “palma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • palma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to award the prize to..: palmam deferre, dare alicui
    • to win the prize: palmam ferre, auferre
  • “palma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “palma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 441

Latvian

Noun

palma f (4th declension)

  1. palm tree

Declension

Declension of palma (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) palma palmas
accusative (akuzatīvs) palmu palmas
genitive (ģenitīvs) palmas palmu
dative (datīvs) palmai palmām
instrumental (instrumentālis) palmu palmām
locative (lokatīvs) palmā palmās
vocative (vokatīvs) palma palmas

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English palm, from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

Noun

palma (Jawi spelling ڤلما, plural palma-palma, informal 1st possessive palmaku, 2nd possessive palmamu, 3rd possessive palmanya)

  1. palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Dutch palmen.

Verb

palma

  1. a-infinitive form of palme

Etymology 2

Noun

palma f

  1. (non-standard since 1959) definite singular of palme

References

  • “palma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “palma”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Anagrams

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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palma

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palma, from Proto-Italic *pəlmā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -alma
  • Syllabification: pal‧ma
  • Homophone: Palma

Noun

palma f (diminutive palemka)

  1. palm tree
  2. Easter palm

Declension

Declension of palma
singular plural
nominative palma palmy
genitive palmy palm
dative palmie palmom
accusative palmę palmy
instrumental palmą palmami
locative palmie palmach
vocative palmo palmy

Derived terms

adjective
nouns

Further reading

  • palma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • palma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -almɐ, (Brazil) -awmɐ
  • Hyphenation: pal‧ma

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

  1. palm (inner part of the hand)
    palma da mão ― palm of the hand
  2. (usually in the plural) clap (the act of striking the palms of the hands)
  3. (in the plural) applause
  4. palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)
    Synonym: palmeira
  5. (historical) Alternative form of palmo, a traditional unit of length

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

palma

  1. inflection of palmar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

palma f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pâːlma/
  • Hyphenation: pal‧ma

Noun

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

  1. palm-tree

Declension

Declension of palma
singular plural
nominative palma palme
genitive palme pȃlmā / pȃlmī
dative palmi palmama
accusative palmu palme
vocative palmo palme
locative palmi palmama
instrumental palmom palmama

Derived terms

Slovene

Pronunciation

Noun

pȃlma f

  1. palm (tree)

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. pálma
gen. sing. pálme
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		pálma pálmi pálme
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		pálme pálm pálm
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		pálmi pálmama pálmam
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		pálmo pálmi pálme
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		pálmi pálmah pálmah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		pálmo pálmama pálmami

Further reading

  • “palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

palm of the hand

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalma/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -alma
  • Syllabification: pal‧ma

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo.

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

  1. palm of the hand
    Antonym: dorso
  2. palm tree
    Synonym: palmera
  3. palm leaf
  4. (historical) Alternative form of palmo (a traditional unit of length)
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

palma

  1. inflection of palmar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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