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Latin
Etymology
palma (“hand, palm of the hand; palm tree”) + -ula
Pronunciation
Noun
palmula f (genitive palmulae); first declension
- diminutive of palma
- the palm of the hand
- Synonym: palma
- (by extension) the fruit of the palm tree; date
- Synonym: palma
- (figuratively) blade of an oar
- Synonyms: palma, rēmus
- (figuratively) the wing of a bird
- Synonym: āla
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “palmula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “palmula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- palmula 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)
- palmula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “palmula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers