palma

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

Asturian

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin palma.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

1. palm tree

   Synonyms: palmera, palmer

2. palm leaf
3. palm of the hand

   Synonyms: palmell

Derived terms

• palmell
• palmer
• palmera

Related terms

• pam

Further reading

• “palma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Czech

Noun

palma f

1. palm (tropical tree)

Declension

Declension of palma

	singular	plural
nominative	palma	palmy
genitive	palmy	palm
dative	palmě	palmám
accusative	palmu	palmy
vocative	palmo	palmy
locative	palmě	palmách
instrumental	palmou	palmami

Derived terms

• palmový

Further reading

• palma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• palma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin palma.

Noun

palma f (plural palme)

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

Related terms

• impalmare
• olio di palma
• palma da cocco
• palma da dattero / palma da datteri
• palma da olio
• palmare
• palmato
• palmeto

Anagrams

• lampa

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Latin

Etymology 1

palma manūs (palm of the hand)

palma (palm tree)

From Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Cognates include Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē), Old Irish lám, and Old English folm.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpaɫ.ma]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

1. (anatomy) palm of the hand, hand
2. (nautical) blade of an oar
3. (botany) palm tree; date tree
4. (figuratively) victory
5. vocative singular of palma
6. (unit of measure, medieval) palm, of various exact values throughout Europe but usually ¼ of the local foot.

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	palma	palmae
genitive	palmae	palmārum
dative	palmae	palmīs
accusative	palmam	palmās
ablative	palmā	palmīs
vocative	palma	palmae

Synonyms

• (anatomy): palmus
• (unit of measure): palmus (classical)

Derived terms

• palmāris
• palmārius
• palmēnsis
• palmes

• palmētum
• palmeus
• palmiceus, palmicius

• palmifer
• palmiger
• palmipēs

• palmō
• palmōsus
• palmula

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
• Portuguese: palma
• Romanian: palmă
• Sardinian: palma, parma, prama
• Sicilian: pamma, parma, pàlma
• Spanish: palma
• Venetian: palma

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.maː/, [ˈpaɫ.maː]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

palmā

1. ablative singular of palma

Etymology 2

eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma

Alternative forms

• parma

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpaɫ.ma]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

1. a parma; a small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
2. (poetic) any shield
3. (poetic) a Threx
4. vocative singular of palma

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	palma	palmae
genitive	palmae	palmārum
dative	palmae	palmīs
accusative	palmam	palmās
ablative	palmā	palmīs
vocative	palma	palmae

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.maː/, [ˈpaɫ.maː]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

palmā

1. ablative singular of palma

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “palma”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “palma” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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

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Latvian

Noun

palma f (4th declension)

1. palm tree

Declension

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

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Maltese

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian palma, from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɐlmɐ/

Noun

palma f (determinate plural: palmiet, collective plural: palm)

1. palm tree

Derived terms

• Ħadd il-Palm

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Polish

palma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalma]

• Audio

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Noun

palma f

1. palm (tropical tree)

Declension

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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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -awma

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

1. palm (inner part of the hand)
2. clap (the act of striking the palms of the hands)
3. (in the plural) applause
4. palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)

Synonyms

• (palm tree): palmeira

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal.ma]

Noun

palma f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of palmă.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

1. palm-tree

Declension

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

Derived terms

• kȍkosova pȃlma
• pȃlmin

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpáːlma/
• Tonal orthography: pȃlma

Noun

pálma f (genitive pálme, nominative plural pálme)

1. palm (tree)

Declension

Declension of pálma (feminine, a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	pálma	pálmi	pálme
accusative	pálmo	pálmi	pálme
genitive	pálme	pálm	pálm
dative	pálmi	pálmama	pálmam
locative	pálmi	pálmah	pálmah
instrumental	pálmo	pálmama	pálmami

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/

Etymology 1

From Latin palma.

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

1. palm of the hand
2. palm tree

   Synonyms: palmera

3. palm leaf

Derived terms

• palma fúnebre

Related terms

• palmar

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

palma

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of palmar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of palmar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of palmar.

Further reading

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