palma

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

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

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

   Synonym: palmell

Further reading

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

Noun

palma f

1. palm (tropical tree)

Further reading

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

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)

Anagrams

• lampa

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.

Etymology 2

eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma

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, 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
    
• 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

Noun

palma f (4th declension)

1. palm tree

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian palma, from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɐlmɐ/

Noun

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

1. palm tree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

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Noun

palma f

1. palm (tropical tree)

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)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal.ma]

Noun

palma f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of palmă.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

1. palm-tree

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pálma f (genitive pálme, nominative plural pálme)

1. palm (tree)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/

Etymology 1

From Latin palma.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Further reading

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