parma
See also: Parma
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹmə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːmə/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə
Etymology 1 edit
From parmigiana.
Noun edit
parma (plural parmas)
- (Australia) A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
parma (plural parmae)
- (historical) A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.
See also edit
- parma wallaby (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
parma f
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
parma (dialectal)
- Alternative form of paarma
Declension edit
Inflection of parma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | parma | parmat | ||
genitive | parman | parmojen | ||
partitive | parmaa | parmoja | ||
illative | parmaan | parmoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | parma | parmat | ||
accusative | nom. | parma | parmat | |
gen. | parman | |||
genitive | parman | parmojen parmainrare | ||
partitive | parmaa | parmoja | ||
inessive | parmassa | parmoissa | ||
elative | parmasta | parmoista | ||
illative | parmaan | parmoihin | ||
adessive | parmalla | parmoilla | ||
ablative | parmalta | parmoilta | ||
allative | parmalle | parmoille | ||
essive | parmana | parmoina | ||
translative | parmaksi | parmoiksi | ||
abessive | parmatta | parmoitta | ||
instructive | — | parmoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps a back-formation from parmula, dissimilated from palmula, from palma (“hand”), referring to the shield being handheld.[1]
Or, borrowed from a Celtic word.[2]
Pronunciation edit
- parma: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]
- parma: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]
- parmā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.maː/, [ˈpärmäː]
- parmā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]
Noun edit
parma f (genitive parmae); first declension
- a parma; a round shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
- (poetic) any shield
- (poetic) a Thraex; a gladiator armed with a parma
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | parma | parmae |
Genitive | parmae | parmārum |
Dative | parmae | parmīs |
Accusative | parmam | parmās |
Ablative | parmā | parmīs |
Vocative | parma | parmae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Ancient Greek: πάρμη (pármē)
References edit
- “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- parma 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)
- parma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “parma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “parma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “parma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “parma”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
parma f
- palm (of the hand)