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Latin
Etymology
From palma (“hand, palm of the hand; palm tree”) + -āris.
Pronunciation
Adjective
palmāris (neuter palmāre); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Measuring the length, width or breadth of a hand or palm.
- Full of palms.
- That deserves the palmary or prize, superior, excellent.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Synonyms
- (measuring the length, width or breadth of a hand or palm): palmeus
Descendants
References
- “palmaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “palmaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- palmaris 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)
- palmaris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.