palma

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

palma (plural palmas)

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

From Latin palma.

palma f (plural palmes)

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

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

palma f (plural palmes)

1. palm tree

   Synonyms: palmera, palmer

2. palm leaf
3. palm of the hand

   Synonym: palmell

• palmell
• palmer
• palmera

• pam

• “palma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “palma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalma]

palma f

1. palm (tropical tree)

• palmový

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma̝/

palma f (plural palmas)

1. (anatomy) palm (of the handl)
2. (usually in the plural) claps
3. palm tree

   Synonym: palmeira

4. palm leaf

• palmada
• palmeira
• palmela
• palmo

• “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.

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

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

palma f (plural palme)

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

• lampa

• palma: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpäɫ̪mä]
• palma: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpälmä]

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• palmā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.maː/, [ˈpäɫ̪mäː]
• palmā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpälmä]

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palma manūs (palm of the hand)

palma (palm tree)

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

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

1. palm of the hand, hand

   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

First-declension noun.

• palmārium
• palmātus
• palmipedālis
• palmulāris

eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma.

• parma

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

First-declension noun.

• “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, 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

palma f (4th declension)

1. palm tree

• ڤلما‎

Borrowed from English palm, from Latin palma.

• IPA^(key): /palma/
• Rhymes: -alma, -ma, -a
• Hyphenation: pal‧ma

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)

From Dutch palmen.

palma

1. a-infinitive form of palme

palma f

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

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

• lampa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

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• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: pal‧ma
• Homophone: Palma

palma f (diminutive palemka)

1. palm tree
2. Easter palm

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

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

• Rhymes: -almɐ, -awmɐ
• Hyphenation: pal‧ma

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal.ma]

palma f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

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

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

1. palm-tree

• kȍkosova pȃlma
• pȃlmin

• IPA^(key): /páːlma/

pȃlma f

1. palm (tree)

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

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

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

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

• palmar
• palmera
• palmeta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palma

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

• “palma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014