palmo

• palma, pam

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

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.

• Portuguese span, Spanish span; cuarta (Spanish); span, handspan, palm (in Spanish or Portuguese contexts)

• (Spanish unit): 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)
• (Portuguese unit): dedo (¹⁄₁₂ palmo), polegada (¹⁄₈ palmo), Portuguese foot (1+¹⁄₂ palmos), covado (3 palmos), vara (5 palmos), passo (7+¹⁄₂ palmos), toesa (9 palmos), braça (10 palmos)

Borrowed from Latin palma.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈpalmo]
• Rhymes: -almo
• Hyphenation: pal‧mo

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

1. palm tree

• kokospalmo (“coconut palm”)

• palmaĵo, palmobranĉo (“palm branch”)

• palmodimanĉo, palmofesto (“Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter)”)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese palmo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palmus. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish palmo and Catalan pam and palm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalmo̝/

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 (ed.), 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

• “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.

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”).

palmo (plural palmi)

1. palm branch

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

palmo (plural palmi)

1. (anatomy) palm (of hand)

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

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

palmo m (plural palmi)

1. span (of hand)
2. (regional) palm (of the hand)

   Synonym: palma

• lampo

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.moː/, [ˈpäɫ̪moː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mo/, [ˈpälmo]

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

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

• palmātus

• “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

• palma

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

• Rhymes: -almu, -awmu
• Hyphenation: pal‧mo

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

• (unit of length): dedo (¹⁄₁₂ palmo), polegada (¹⁄₈ palmo), pé (1+¹⁄₂ palmo), côvado (3 palmos), vara (5 palmos), passo (7+¹⁄₂ palmos), toesa (9 palmos), braça (10 palmos)
• (unit of area): vara (25 palmos)

• palma

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

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

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

• (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)

• palmo a palmo, palmo de ribera, palmo mayor, palmo menor

• English: palmo, pam

palmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

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