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palmo

See also: palmó

English edit

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Etymology edit

From Spanish and Portuguese palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and pam.

Noun edit

palmo (plural palmos)

  1. (historical, measure) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm.
  2. (historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually equivalent to about 22 cm.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin palma.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

palmo (accusative singular palmon, plural palmoj, accusative plural palmojn)

  1. palm tree

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Meronyms edit

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Galician edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Noun edit

palmo m (plural palmos)

  1. (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
  2. (games) pitch and toss, a game in which coins are thrown at a mark

References edit

  • “palmo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “palmo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “palmo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “palmo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “palmo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido edit

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

palmo (plural palmi)

  1. palm branch
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from English palm, Spanish and Italian palma, ultimately from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand”).

Noun edit

palmo (plural palmi)

  1. (anatomy) palm (of hand)

Italian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin palmus, from palma (“hand”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.mo/
  • Rhymes: -almo
  • Hyphenation: pàl‧mo

Noun edit

palmo m (plural palmi)

  1. span (of hand)
  2. (regional) palm (of the hand)
    Synonym: palma

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

FWOTD – 22 March 2015

Etymology edit

From palma (“hand, palm of the hand; branch”).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

palmō (present infinitive palmāre, perfect active palmāvī, supine palmātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to make the print or mark of the palm of the hand
  2. (transitive) to tie up a vine

Conjugation edit

   Conjugation of palmō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present palmō palmās palmat palmāmus palmātis palmant
imperfect palmābam palmābās palmābat palmābāmus palmābātis palmābant
future palmābō palmābis palmābit palmābimus palmābitis palmābunt
perfect palmāvī palmāvistī palmāvit palmāvimus palmāvistis palmāvērunt,
palmāvēre
pluperfect palmāveram palmāverās palmāverat palmāverāmus palmāverātis palmāverant
future perfect palmāverō palmāveris palmāverit palmāverimus palmāveritis palmāverint
passive present palmor palmāris,
palmāre 		palmātur palmāmur palmāminī palmantur
imperfect palmābar palmābāris,
palmābāre 		palmābātur palmābāmur palmābāminī palmābantur
future palmābor palmāberis,
palmābere 		palmābitur palmābimur palmābiminī palmābuntur
perfect palmātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect palmātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect palmātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present palmem palmēs palmet palmēmus palmētis palment
imperfect palmārem palmārēs palmāret palmārēmus palmārētis palmārent
perfect palmāverim palmāverīs palmāverit palmāverīmus palmāverītis palmāverint
pluperfect palmāvissem palmāvissēs palmāvisset palmāvissēmus palmāvissētis palmāvissent
passive present palmer palmēris,
palmēre 		palmētur palmēmur palmēminī palmentur
imperfect palmārer palmārēris,
palmārēre 		palmārētur palmārēmur palmārēminī palmārentur
perfect palmātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect palmātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — palmā — — palmāte —
future — palmātō palmātō — palmātōte palmantō
passive present — palmāre — — palmāminī —
future — palmātor palmātor — — palmantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives palmāre palmāvisse palmātūrum esse palmārī palmātum esse palmātum īrī
participles palmāns — palmātūrus — palmātus palmandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
palmandī palmandō palmandum palmandō palmātum palmātū

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Related terms edit

References edit

  • “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 edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin palmus, from palma. Doublet of palma. Cognate with Spanish and Galician palmo and Catalan pam and palm.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.mu/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.mo/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mo]

Noun edit

palmo m (plural palmos)

  1. (historical, measure) palmo, a traditional unit of length about equal to 22 cm
  2. (historical, measure) square palmo, a traditional unit of area about equal to 480 cm²
  3. (historical, measure) cubic palmo, a traditional unit of volume about equal to 10.6 L, particularly used in measuring masonry
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Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

palmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalmo/ [ˈpal.mo]
  • Rhymes: -almo
  • Syllabification: pal‧mo

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Latin palmus, from palma. Doublet of palma. Cognate with Portuguese and Galician palmo and Catalan pam and palm.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

palmo m (plural palmos)

  1. span, handspan (an informal unit of length based on a hand's width)
  2. (figuratively) inch, ounce (any trivially small distance or amount of something)
  3. (historical) palmo, Spanish span (a traditional unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm)
    Synonym: cuarta
Coordinate terms edit
  • (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)
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Descendants edit
  • English: palmo, pam

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

palmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

Further reading edit

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