palma
English
Noun
palma (plural palmas)
- (historical) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Portuguese and Spanish units of length.
See also
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpalma/, [ˈpal.ma]
- Rhymes: -alma
- Hyphenation: pal‧ma
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.
Noun
palma f (plural palmes)
Related terms
References
- “palma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “palma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpalma]
Declension
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese palma (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpalma̝/
Noun
palma f (plural palmas)
References
- “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.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/
- Rhymes: -alma
- Hyphenation: pàl‧ma
Noun
palma f (plural palme)
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpäɫ̪mä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpälmä]
Etymology 1


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.
Noun
palma f (genitive palmae); first declension
- 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.)
- Groaning, and extending both [his] hands to the stars, [Aeneas] responds with such an expression [of his fear]: [...].
- ingemit, et duplicīs tendēns ad sīdera palmās
- blade of an oar
- palm tree; date tree
- (figuratively) victory
- (Medieval Latin) a linear measure, palm, of various exact values throughout Europe but usually one quarter of the local foot.
- Synonym: (Classical Latin) palmus
Declension
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 terms
Related terms
- palmārium
- palmātus
- palmipedālis
- palmulāris
Descendants
- Aromanian: palmã
- Asturian: palma
- Catalan: palma, palmell
- Corsican: palma
- Dalmatian: puolma
- → English: palm
- → Dutch: palm
- French: paume
- Friulian: palme
- Galician: palma
- Italian: palma
- Occitan: palma, pauma
- Piedmontese: palma
- Portuguese: palma
- Romanian: palmă
- Sardinian: palma, parma, prama
- Sicilian: parma
- Spanish: palma
- Venetian: palma
- → Welsh: palf
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | palma | palmae |
Genitive | palmae | palmārum |
Dative | palmae | palmīs |
Accusative | palmam | palmās |
Ablative | palmā | palmīs |
Vocative | palma | palmae |
References
- “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
- to award the prize to..: palmam deferre, dare alicui
- “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
- 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
Latvian
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
Alternative forms
- ڤلما
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /palma/
- Rhymes: -alma, -ma, -a
- Hyphenation: pal‧ma
Norwegian Nynorsk
References
Anagrams
Polish

Etymology
Borrowed from Latin palma, from Proto-Italic *pəlmā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -alma
- Syllabification: pal‧ma
- Homophone: Palma
Declension
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.ma/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ma]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpal.mɐ/ [ˈpaɫ.mɐ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -almɐ, (Brazil) -awmɐ
- Hyphenation: pal‧ma
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo
Noun
palma f (plural palmas)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
palma
- inflection of palmar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpal.ma]
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pâːlma/
- Hyphenation: pal‧ma
Declension
Derived terms
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /páːlma/
Inflection
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
- “palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpalma/ [ˈpal.ma]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -alma
- Syllabification: pal‧ma
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo.
Noun
palma f (plural palmas)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
palma
- inflection of palmar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “palma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014