See also: Palma, pálma, palmá, Pálma, palmã, and palmă

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese and Spanish palma. Doublet of palm, palmo, and pam.

NounEdit

palma (plural palmas)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Portuguese and Spanish units of length.

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin palma.

NounEdit

palma f (plural palmes)

  1. palm (inner, concave part of hand)
  2. palm leaf

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

palma f (plural palmes)

  1. palm tree
    Synonyms: palmera, palmer
  2. palm leaf
  3. palm of the hand
    Synonym: palmell

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

CzechEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

palma f (related adjective palmový)

  1. palm (tropical tree)

DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • palma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • palma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician-Portuguese palma (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palma.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

palma f (plural palmas)

  1. (anatomy) palm (of the handl)
  2. (usually in the plural) claps
  3. palm tree
    Synonym: palmeira
  4. palm leaf

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

ItalianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/
  • Rhymes: -alma
  • Hyphenation: pàl‧ma

NounEdit

palma f (plural palme)

  1. palm tree, palm
  2. palm (of the hand)
  3. palm (corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal)

Related termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

 
palma manūs (palm of the hand)
 
palma (palm tree)

From Proto-Italic *palamā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂- (flat). Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē), Old Irish lám, Old English folm, and Albanian shpall.

NounEdit

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

  1. palm of the hand, hand
    • 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.)
    Synonym: palmus
  2. blade of an oar
  3. palm tree; date tree
  4. (figuratively) victory
  5. (Medieval Latin) a linear measure, palm, of various exact values throughout Europe but usually one quarter of the local foot.
    Synonym: (Classical Latin) palmus
DeclensionEdit

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 termsEdit
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DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

 
eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma.

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

  1. a parma; a small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
  2. (poetic) any shield
  3. (poetic) a thraex
DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative palma palmae
Genitive palmae palmārum
Dative palmae palmīs
Accusative palmam palmās
Ablative palmā palmīs
Vocative palma palmae

ReferencesEdit

  • 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
  • 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

LatvianEdit

NounEdit

palma f (4th declension)

  1. palm tree

DeclensionEdit

MalayEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English palm, from Latin palma.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

palma (Jawi spelling ڤلما‎, plural palma-palma, informal 1st possessive palmaku, 2nd possessive palmamu, 3rd possessive palmanya)

  1. palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch palmen.

VerbEdit

palma

  1. a-infinitive form of palme

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

palma f

  1. (non-standard since 1959) definite singular of palme

ReferencesEdit

  • “palma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “palma”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

AnagramsEdit

PolishEdit

 
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palma

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin palma, from Proto-Italic *pəlmā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂-.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

palma f (diminutive palemka)

  1. palm tree
  2. Easter palm

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

adjective
nouns

Further readingEdit

  • palma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • palma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician-Portuguese palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo

PronunciationEdit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.ma/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ma]

NounEdit

palma f (plural palmas)

  1. palm (inner part of the hand)
  2. clap (the act of striking the palms of the hands)
  3. (in the plural) applause
  4. palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)
    Synonym: palmeira
  5. (historical) Alternative form of palmo, a traditional unit of length

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

palma f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /pâːlma/
  • Hyphenation: pal‧ma

NounEdit

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

  1. palm-tree

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

SloveneEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pȃlma f

  1. palm (tree)

InflectionEdit

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 readingEdit

  • palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

SpanishEdit

 
palm of the hand

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalma/ [ˈpal.ma]
  • Rhymes: -alma
  • Syllabification: pal‧ma

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old Spanish palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo.

NounEdit

palma f (plural palmas)

  1. palm of the hand
    Antonym: dorso
  2. palm tree
    Synonym: palmera
  3. palm leaf
  4. (historical) Alternative form of palmo, a traditional unit of length
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

palma

  1. inflection of palmar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further readingEdit