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English
Etymology
From Spanish and Portuguese palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and pam.
Noun
palmo (plural palmos)
- (historical, measure) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm.
- (historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually equivalent to about 22 cm.
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
- (Spanish unit): dedo (1⁄12 palmo), pulgada (1⁄9 palmo), coto (1⁄2 palmo), sesma (2⁄3 palmo), pie (1
+1⁄3 palmos), codo (2 palmos), vara (4 palmos)
- (Portuguese unit): dedo (1⁄12 palmo), polegada (1⁄8 palmo), Portuguese foot (1
+1⁄2 palmos), covado (3 palmos), vara (5 palmos), passo (7+1⁄2 palmos), toesa (9 palmos), braça (10 palmos)
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin palma.
Pronunciation
Noun
palmo (accusative singular palmon, plural palmoj, accusative plural palmojn)
- palm tree
Hyponyms
Meronyms
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese palmo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palmus. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish palmo and Catalan pam and palm.
Pronunciation
Noun
palmo m (plural palmos)
- (historical) palmo, Spanish span, traditional Spanish unit of length
- 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:
Et avia ẽno rrostro hũu palmo et meo en longo et ẽna barua hũu palmo, et ẽno nariz hũu meo palmo; et ẽna testa hũu palmo et pouquo mais- He had a handspan and a half in his face, and in the beard a handspan, and half a handspan in the nose; and in the front he had one handspan and a little more
1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 159:Et se algũu quiser dar algũu pano de lenço para cobrir o altar de Santiago, deueo a dar de noue palmos en ancho et de viinte et hũu en longo.- And if anyone would want to give a cloth of linen for covering Saint Jame's altar, it must be nine handspans in wide and twenty-one in long
- Synonym: cuarta
- (games) pitch and toss, a game in which coins are thrown at a mark
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “palmo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “palmo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “palmo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “palmo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “palmo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Ido
Etymology 1
From Esperanto palmo (“palm tree”), from English palm, French palme, Italian palma,Spanish palma, Italian palma, Portuguese palmeira, Russian па́льма (pálʹma), ultimately from Latin palma (“palm tree, date”).
Noun
palmo (plural palmi)
- palm branch
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English palm, Spanish and Italian palma, ultimately from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand”).
Noun
palmo (plural palmi)
- (anatomy) palm (of hand)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin palmus, from palma (“hand”).
Pronunciation
Noun
palmo m (plural palmi)
- span (of hand)
- (regional) palm (of the hand)
- Synonym: palma
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From palma (“hand, palm of the hand; branch”).
Pronunciation
Verb
palmō (present infinitive palmāre, perfect active palmāvī, supine palmātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to make the print or mark of the palm of the hand
- (transitive) to tie up a vine
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “palmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- palmo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Latin palmus, from palma. Doublet of palma. Cognate with Spanish and Galician palmo and Catalan pam and palm.
Pronunciation
Noun
palmo m (plural palmos)
- (historical, measure) palmo, a traditional unit of length about equal to 22 cm
- (historical, measure) square palmo, a traditional unit of area about equal to 480 cm²
- (historical, measure) cubic palmo, a traditional unit of volume about equal to 10.6 L, particularly used in measuring masonry
Coordinate terms
Etymology 2
Verb
palmo
- first-person singular present indicative of palmar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpalmo/
- Rhymes: -almo
- Syllabification: pal‧mo
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin palmus, from palma. Doublet of palma. Cognate with Portuguese and Galician palmo and Catalan pam and palm.
Noun
palmo m (plural palmos)
- span, handspan (an informal unit of length based on a hand's width)
- (figuratively) inch, ounce (any trivially small distance or amount of something)
- (historical) palmo, Spanish span (a traditional unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm)
- Synonym: cuarta
Coordinate terms
- (traditional unit of length): dedo (1⁄12 palmo), pulgada (1⁄9 palmo), coto (1⁄2 palmo), sesma (2⁄3 palmo), pie (1
+1⁄3 palmos), codo (2 palmos), vara (4 palmos)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
palmo
- first-person singular present indicative of palmar
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