palmus

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

palmus (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A rhythmic tic or throb, such as a convulsion or the heartbeat.

Anagrams

• Sampul, ampuls

Latin

Alternative forms

• palma

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂m- (“palm of the hand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mus/, [ˈpäɫ̪mʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mus/, [ˈpälmus]

Noun

palmus m (genitive palmī); second declension

1. (anatomy) palm
2. (unit of measure, Classical Latin) palm, (especially) the Roman palm of about 7.4 cm.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	palmus	palmī
genitive	palmī	palmōrum
dative	palmō	palmīs
accusative	palmum	palmōs
ablative	palmō	palmīs
vocative	palme	palmī

Synonyms

• (unit of length): palma (medieval)

Meronyms

• (unit of length): digitus (¼ palm), palmus maior (3 palms), pes (4 palms)

Descendants

• Catalan: pam, palm
• Galician: palmo
• Italian: palmo
• Piedmontese: palm
• Portuguese: palmo
• Sicilian: parmu
• Spanish: palmo

References

• “palmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palmus 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)
• palmus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “palmus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “palmus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Anagrams

• amplus, plumas