parma

See also: Parma

English

Etymology 1

From parmigiana.

Noun

parma

  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. A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

parma f

  1. barbel (freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

Further reading

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

Ingrian

Noun

parma

  1. gadfly

Latin

eques cum parmā (cavalryman with parma)

Etymology

From parmula, dissimilated from palmula, from palma (“hand”), referring to the shield being handheld.[1]

Or, borrowed from a Celtic word.[2]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation 1

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
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative parma parmae
genitive parmae parmārum
dative parmae parmīs
accusative parmam parmās
ablative parmā parmīs
vocative parma parmae
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

Noun

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, 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
  1. ↑ Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1919): The Classical Weekly, Volume 12, p. 215
  2. ↑ Ramat, Anna Giacalone et al (2015): The Indo-European Languages, p. 268
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