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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek.
Noun
palmus (uncountable)
- (medicine, obsolete) A rhythmic tic or throb, such as a convulsion or the heartbeat.
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂m- (“palm of the hand”).
Pronunciation
Noun
palmus m (genitive palmī); second declension
- (anatomy) palm
- (unit of measure, Classical Latin) palm, (especially) the Roman palm of about 7.4 cm.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (unit of length): palma (medieval)
Meronyms
Descendants
References
- “palmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- palmus 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)
- palmus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “palmus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “palmus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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