palmaris

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paɫˈmaː.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [palˈmaː.ris]

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.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	palmāris	palmāre		palmārēs	palmāria
genitive	palmāris			palmārium
dative	palmārī			palmāribus
accusative	palmārem	palmāre		palmārīs palmārēs	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

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

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, 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.