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palma

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

English

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Etymology

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

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palma (plural palmas)

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

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin palma.

Pronunciation

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

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palma f (plural palmes)

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

Catalan

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Etymology

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

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palma f (plural palmes)

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

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Czech

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palma f (related adjective palmový)

  1. palm (tropical tree)

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Declension of palma (hard feminine reducible)
singular plural
nominative palma palmy
genitive palmy palem
dative palmě palmám
accusative palmu palmy
vocative palmo palmy
locative palmě palmách
instrumental palmou palmami

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  • “palma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “palma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

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Etymology

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

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palma f (plural palmas)

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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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palma f (plural palme)

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

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Etymology 1

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

    From Proto-Italic *palamā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”).[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē), Old Irish lám, Old English folm, and Albanian shpall.

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    palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

    1. palm of the hand, hand
      Synonym: palmus
      • 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.)
    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
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    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative palma palmae
    genitive palmae palmārum
    dative palmae palmīs
    accusative palmam palmās
    ablative palmā palmīs
    vocative palma palmae
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    Borrowings

    Etymology 2

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    eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

    Collateral form of parma.

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    palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

    1. Alternative form of parma (“small shield”)
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    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative palma palmae
    genitive palmae palmārum
    dative palmae palmīs
    accusative palmam palmās
    ablative palmā palmīs
    vocative palma palmae

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    • “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
    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 441

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    Noun

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    palma f (4th declension)

    1. palm tree

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    Declension of palma (4th declension)
    singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
    nominative (nominatīvs) palma palmas
    accusative (akuzatīvs) palmu palmas
    genitive (ģenitīvs) palmas palmu
    dative (datīvs) palmai palmām
    instrumental (instrumentālis) palmu palmām
    locative (lokatīvs) palmā palmās
    vocative (vokatīvs) palma palmas

    Malay

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English palm, from Latin palma.

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    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 Nynorsk

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    Etymology 1

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    From Dutch palmen.

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    palma

    1. a-infinitive form of palme

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    palma f

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

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

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    Polish

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    palma

    Etymology

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

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -alma
    • Syllabification: pal‧ma
    • Homophone: Palma

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    palma f (diminutive palemka)

    1. palm tree
    2. Easter palm

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    Declension of palma
    singular plural
    nominative palma palmy
    genitive palmy palm
    dative palmie palmom
    accusative palmę palmy
    instrumental palmą palmami
    locative palmie palmach
    vocative palmo palmy

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    adjective
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    Further reading

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

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

    • Rhymes: (Portugal) -almɐ, (Brazil) -awmɐ
    • Hyphenation: pal‧ma

    Etymology 1

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

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    palma f (plural palmas)

    1. palm (inner part of the hand)
      palma da mão ― palm of the hand
    2. (usually in the plural) 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
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    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    palma

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

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    palma f

    1. definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

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

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    pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

    1. palm-tree

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    Declension of palma
    singular plural
    nominative palma palme
    genitive palme pȃlmā / pȃlmī
    dative palmi palmama
    accusative palmu palme
    vocative palmo palme
    locative palmi palmama
    instrumental palmom palmama

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    Slovene

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    pȃlma f

    1. palm (tree)

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    		 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
    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 reading

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    • “palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

    Spanish

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    palm of the hand

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    Etymology 1

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

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    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)
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    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    palma

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

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