palma
English
Etymology
From Portuguese and Spanish palma. Doublet of palm, palmo, and pam.
Noun
palma (plural palmas)
- (historical) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Portuguese and Spanish units of length.
See also
Asturian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
palma f (plural palmes)
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.
Pronunciation
Noun
palma f (plural palmes)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “palma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “palma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “palma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “palma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
palma f (related adjective palmový)
- palm (tropical tree)
Declension
Further reading
- “palma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “palma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 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)
Related terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “palma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “palma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “palma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “palma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “palma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
Etymology
From Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.
Pronunciation
Noun
palma f (plural palme)
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpäɫ̪mä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpälmä]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *palamā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”).[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē), Old Irish lám, Old English folm, and Albanian shpall.
Noun
palma f (genitive palmae); first declension
- 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 [his] hands to the stars, [Aeneas] responds with such an expression [of his fear]: [...].
(Facing imminent death at sea, Aeneas invokes the gods, raising his hands with the palms facing upward as if to receive divine blessing.)
- Groaning, and extending both [his] hands to the stars, [Aeneas] responds with such an expression [of his fear]: [...].
- ingemit, et duplicīs tendēns ad sīdera palmās
- blade of an oar
- palm tree; date tree
- (figuratively) victory
- (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
- Eastern Romance
- Gallo-Italic
- Piedmontese: palma
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Occitano-Romance
- Old French: paume, palme, pasme, paulme
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: palme
- Sardinian: palma, parma, prama
- Venetan: palma
- West Iberian
- Borrowings
- → Azerbaijani: palma
- → Belarusian: пальма (palʹma)
- → Bulgarian: палма (palma)
- → Cornish: palv
- → Czech: palm
- → Estonian: palm
- → Georgian: პალმა (ṗalma)
- → Hungarian: pálma
- → Lao: ປາມ (pām)
- → Latvian: palm
- → Lithuanian: palmė
- → Macedonian: палма (palma)
- → Malayalam: പം (paṁ)
- → Middle High German: palme, balme
- → Old Dutch: palma
- → Old English: palm (“palm tree”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Old French: palme
- → Old Norse: palmi
- → Polish: palma
- → Russian: пальма (palʹma) (see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian: palma, палма
- → Slovak: palma
- → Slovene: palma
- → Turkish: palmiye
- → Turkmen: palma
- → Ukrainian: пальма (palʹma)
- → Uyghur: پالما (palma)
- → Uzbek: palma
- → Welsh: palf
Etymology 2
Collateral form of parma.
Noun
palma f (genitive palmae); first declension
- 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to award the prize to..: palmam deferre, dare alicui
- to win the prize: palmam ferre, auferre
- to award the prize to..: palmam deferre, dare alicui
- “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
- ^ 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)
Declension
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)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
palma
- a-infinitive form of palme
Etymology 2
Noun
palma f
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
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin palma, from Proto-Italic *pəlmā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂-.
Pronunciation
Noun
palma f (diminutive palemka)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- palma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- palma in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo
Noun
palma f (plural palmas)
- palm (inner part of the hand)
- palma da mão ― palm of the hand
- (usually in the plural) clap (the act of striking the palms of the hands)
- (in the plural) applause
- palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)
- Synonym: palmeira
- (historical) Alternative form of palmo, a traditional unit of length
Descendants
- → English: palma
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
palma
- inflection of palmar:
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
palma f
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)
Declension
Derived terms
Slovene
Pronunciation
Noun
pȃlma f
- palm (tree)
Inflection
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 (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo.
Noun
palma f (plural palmas)
- palm of the hand
- Antonym: dorso
- palm tree
- Synonym: palmera
- palm leaf
- (historical) Alternative form of palmo (a traditional unit of length)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: palma
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
palma
- inflection of palmar:
Further reading
- “palma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
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- English doublets
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- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Units of measure
- Asturian terms inherited from Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Asturian/alma
- Rhymes:Asturian/alma/2 syllables
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
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- Catalan countable nouns
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- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech hard feminine nouns
- Czech nouns with reducible stem
- cs:Palm trees
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
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- gl:Anatomy
- gl:Trees
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
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- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/alma
- Rhymes:Italian/alma/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Anatomy
- it:Trees
- it:Zoology
- it:Palm trees
- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
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- Latin terms with quotations
- Medieval Latin
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- la:Body parts
- la:Ship parts
- la:Units of measure
- la:Palm trees
- la:Armor
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian fourth declension nouns
- lv:Trees
- Malay terms borrowed from English
- Malay terms derived from English
- Malay terms derived from Latin
- Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Malay/alma
- Rhymes:Malay/ma
- Rhymes:Malay/a
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- ms:Plants
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Dutch
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms
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- Polish terms borrowed from Latin
- Polish learned borrowings from Latin
- Polish terms derived from Latin
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- Polish lemmas
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- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Easter
- pl:Lithuania
- pl:Palm trees
- pl:Poland
- pl:Trees
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/almɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/almɐ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/awmɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/awmɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms with collocations
- Portuguese terms with historical senses
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
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- pt:Units of measure
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian non-lemma forms
- Romanian noun forms
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- sh:Commelinids
- sh:Trees
- Slovene 2-syllable words
- Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovene lemmas
- Slovene nouns
- Slovene feminine nouns
- Slovene feminine a-stem nouns
- sl:Commelinids
- sl:Trees
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Spanish/alma
- Rhymes:Spanish/alma/2 syllables
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish doublets
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms with historical senses
- Spanish non-lemma forms
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- es:Body parts
- es:Palm trees
- es:Units of measure