parma

See also: Parma

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From parmigiana.

Noun

parma (plural parmas)

1. (Australia) A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.

   The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.

Etymology 2

From Latin parma.

Noun

parma (plural parmae)

1. (historical) A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.

Anagrams

• param, praam

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Czech

Noun

parma f

1. barbel (freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

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Ingrian

Noun

parma

1. gadfly

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Latin

eques cum parmā (cavalryman with parma)

Etymology

From parmula, dissimilated from palmula, from palma (“hand”), referring to the shield being handheld.

Or, borrowed from a Celtic word.

Alternative forms

• palma

Pronunciation

• parma: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]
• parma: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]
• parmā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.maː/, [ˈpärmäː]
• parmā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]

Noun

parma f (genitive parmae); first declension

1. a parma; a small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
2. (poetic) any shield
3. (poetic) a Thraex; a gladiator armed with a parma
4. vocative singular of parma

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	parma	parmae
Genitive	parmae	parmārum
Dative	parmae	parmīs
Accusative	parmam	parmās
Ablative	parmā	parmīs
Vocative	parma	parmae

Derived terms

• parmula

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: πάρμη (pármē)

Noun

(deprecated template usage) parmā

1. ablative singular of parma

References

• “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parma 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)
• parma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “parma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “parma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “parma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “parma”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press