palmaris

Latin

Etymology

From palma (“hand, palm of the hand; palm tree”) +‎ -āris.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /palˈmaː.ris/, [päɫ̪ˈmäːrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /palˈma.ris/, [pälˈmäːris]

Adjective

palmāris (neuter palmāre); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Measuring the length, width or breadth of a hand or palm.
2. Full of palms.
3. That deserves the palmary or prize, superior, excellent.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	palmāris	palmāre		palmārēs	palmāria
Genitive	palmāris			palmārium
Dative	palmārī			palmāribus
Accusative	palmārem	palmāre		palmārēs palmārīs	palmāria
Ablative	palmārī			palmāribus
Vocative	palmāris	palmāre		palmārēs	palmāria

Synonyms

• (measuring the length, width or breadth of a hand or palm): palmeus

Related terms

• palma
• palmārium
• palmārius
• palmātus
• palmēnsis
• palmes
• palmētum
• palmeus
• palmiceus, palmicius
• palmifer
• palmiger
• palmipēs
• palmō
• palmōsus
• palmula
• palmulāris

Descendants

• French: palmarès
• Italian: palmare
• Spanish: palmar

References

• “palmaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palmaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palmaris 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)
• palmaris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.